Re: Glottal Stops and word-initial vowels

En réponse à Daniel D Hicken :


>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?
As already said, French "allo" is /a'lo/ *and* [a'lo]. The glottal stop 
appears in French only when a word beginning with a vowel is pronounced 
after a pause, and is a purely physical artifact. French doesn't mind 
hiatus, even between identical vowels! ("la hache", to take an example from 
a former mail of mine, is pronounced [la.'aS], the dot meaning "syllable 
break". There is no glottal stop between the two [a].

Christophe Grandsire.

http://rainbow.conlang.free.fr

You need a straight mind to invent a twisted conlang.