Re: The status of the glottal stop in Hebrew
| From: | John Cowan <jcowan@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, July 6, 2004, 0:36 |
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Chris Bates scripsit:
> What English dialect do you speak? I never skip the final t on That...
> so mine is more like [T&tIz@n&pl=] (shamelessly modifying your X-SAMPA
> or whatever). Well, I'd actually be more likely to say [T&ts@n&pl=], but....
American English, East Coast variety, rhotic, a little old-fashioned.
The [r] tap is the intervocalic allophone of /t/ and /d/; like them, it's
alveolar, so a little different from Spanish [r] which is dental.
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