Re: glottals

>Quoting Barbara Barrett <barbarabarrett@...>:
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>>Barbara Babbles;
>>Not certain about [h/], but it's in there if you can get the Bahrain channel
>>on your satellite sevice and listen to Arabic being spoken.
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>>[h] final and the glottal stop [?] can be heard in english accents such as
>>Irish and London.
>>"Magrath" is pronounced as /ma grah/ or sometimes /ma?grah/. Londoners
>>replace post volic [t] with [?] so "hot" becomes /h;@?/ and "butter" becomes
>>/b;v?3:/
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Surely [hQ?], and [bV?3].  And not confined to London, either.  In the
younger genaration, this has spread word-finally all over England,
especially the southeast.

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