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Re: Glottal Stops and word-initial vowels

From:Jean-François Colson <fa597525@...>
Date:Sunday, January 11, 2004, 10:52
Tristan McLeay wrote:

> On Sat, 10 Jan 2004, Daniel D Hicken wrote: > > > Is it a given that word initial vowels cause humans to use a glottal
stop
> > such as in /?{p@l/ apple, or /?{lo/ French 'Allo' Or is it more > > You'll find that it's /alo/, I do believe. And /&p@l/, for that matter; > the [?] is non-phonemic (so [?&p@l] is correct, though). > > > frequently found that there are not? I'm working on a conlang, and when > > I go through and pronounce through the words, I find that I'm wanting to > > put a glottal stop in front of the word-intial vowels when there's no > > liaison from the preceding word. > > > > Comments? > > It's my understanding that since [?] became widespread in some British > dialects, words beginning with vowels now begin with vowels :) But this > information is at least second-hand. I'm capable of doing what sounds like > starting with no consonant, though. (but this might just be a sound I > don't recognise: a voiced [h], perhaps, or some nature of glide.) >
Why not a voiced [h] ([h_v]? I read in a book (I don't remember which one - perhaps a book by Daniel Jones, but I'm not sure) that the phoneme /h/ can be considered as an unvoiced vowel and then [ha] = [a_0a], [hi] = [i_0i], etc. What do you think? Jean-François Colson jfcolson@belgacom.net