Re: The status of the glottal stop in Hebrew

John Cowan wrote:   <--- Mozilla Thunderbird's spell checker wanted to

                          replace 'Cowan' with 'Cowman'.
> Chris Bates scripsit:
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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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> 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.)

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