Glottal Stops and word-initial vowels
| From: | Daniel D Hicken <danlefrancais@...> |
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| Date: | Sunday, January 11, 2004, 5:37 |
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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
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?
Daniel Hicken
"A language is a dialect that has an army and a navy." -Max Weinreich,
linguist and author (1894-1969)
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