Re: glottals

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.

[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:/

Barbara
----- Original Message -----
Alexandre Asked;
i'm having a few troubles with glottals.
First of all, i'm not sure i can pronounce [h] in \ah\.
Maybe it's cuz i just know European langauges or there's something wrong
with my tongue.
It almost seems impossible to me.
I can pronounce something like it, but i'm not sure if it's it.
Is it supposed to be hard to pronounce?
Second, how can i figure out how [?] and [h\] sound like?

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