Re: another silly phonology question

On Tue, 28 Nov 2000, 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"?
No, that was me being careless and letting orthography interfere.  I would
say [bV?n]. I definitely do not have any contact with the alveolar ridge
until I pronounce the [n].

  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".
>
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