Re: another silly phonology question

On Tue, Nov 28, 2000 at 07:55:03PM -0500, Nik Taylor wrote:
> Marcus Smith wrote:
> > Also, I use glottal stops in my own dialect. For exmaple, I say [bu?n] for
> > <button> and [ka?n] for <cotton>.
>
> You use /u/ in "button"?  I hear that glo??al stop quite often, but I
> say [bVtn=] or perhaps [bVt?n=], but I think that that apparent glo??al
> stop is just the velum lowering.  I also sometimes hear [dI?In] or
> perhaps [dI?n=] or [dI?@n] (hard to tell exactly what the second
> syllable is) for "didn't".
I also use something that seems to be glottal or glottalized in cases of
/tn=/. I'm not exactly sure how to transcribe it, but in <button>, I
pronounce [bV] and then the tip of my tongue goes to the alveolus at about
the same time (or perhaps slightly before) I pronounce [?]. I then pronounce
the syllabic [n=]. So I guess it doesn't seem like there's a [t] in there at
all...

I've heard something like ["dI?I~?] for <didn't>. I may be wrong, but this
kind of use of [?] for /d/ seems to be mainly characteristic of some
African-American speech around here.


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