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Re: The status of the glottal stop in Hebrew

From:Tristan Mc Leay <kesuari@...>
Date:Tuesday, July 6, 2004, 0:57
John Cowan wrote:   <--- Mozilla Thunderbird's spell checker wanted to

                          replace 'Cowan' with 'Cowman'.
> 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.
Unless you're using an unvoiced fricative for the th in 'that', you wanted to write [D&4Iz@n&pl=], then. [r] is a trill, [4] is the tap/ flap. (In formal speech, I might want to put a [?] before 'apple', but not before 'is', but then, I doubt I'd say 'that is an apple' anyway. In informal speech, never either.) -- Tristan. | To be nobody-but-yourself in a world kesuari at yahoo!.com.au | which is doing its best to, night and day, | to make you everybody else--- | means to fight the hardest battle | which any human being can fight; | and never stop fighting. | --- E. E. Cummings, "A Miscellany"

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