Re: The status of the glottal stop in Hebrew
| From: | Chris Bates <chris.maths_student@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, July 5, 2004, 20:49 |
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John Cowan wrote:
>Dan Sulani scripsit:
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>> But I'm not so sure that an English speaker would notice the
>>difference, given that (IIRC) English words which are perceived by
>>naive native speakers as beginning with a vowel, usually actually begin
>>with a glottal stop! (There are probably dialects to the contrary,
>>but I can't, offhand, think of any.)
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>Mine, for sure. I had to consciously learn to make initial glottal stops
>when learning German, and I think it is regularly taught to people learning
>German, not just me. I definitely say [T&rIz@n'&pl=], not [T&r?Iz?@n'?&pl=]
>for "that is an apple".
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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....
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