Re: glottals
| From: | Ray Brown <ray.brown@...> |
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| Date: | Wednesday, January 28, 2004, 12:59 |
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On Monday, January 26, 2004, at 06:18 PM, Joe wrote:
>> Quoting Barbara Barrett <barbarabarrett@...>:
[snip]
>>> [h] final and the glottal stop [?] can be heard in english accents such
>>> as
>>> Irish and London.
[snip]
> 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.
And most certainly not confined to London - nor just the South east. My
colleague
from the North East (yep, a Geordie - not always readily comprehensible :)
most
certainly has [?] for /t/ in medial and final positions. And it's
certainly common
enough in some Lowland varieties of Scots English.
My impression is that it has become very widespread in British English
generally among
younger generations than me - i.e. by speakers younger than about 50.
Ray
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