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Re: ontology of glottalized segments?

From:And Rosta <a.rosta@...>
Date:Thursday, August 12, 2004, 20:33
Bfowol:
> On Wed, 11 Aug 2004 23:40:38 +0100, And Rosta <a.rosta@...> wrote: > > >Glottalized stops (i.e. glottal-oral) are the realization of coda > >(or foot-internal) /ptk/ in Geordie (Newcastle) and are at least > >an allophone of coda /ptk/ in some accents of the North of England > >(e.g. Yorkshire) &, I believe, New York City. But I am not aware of > >any accent that has a three way surface *contrast* between [d] [t] > >and [t']/[t^?], but conceivably -- I've never checked -- it might > >found in "pig it" : "picket" : "pick it". > > On an old recording of Woody Allen doing his stand-up routine > (probably dating to the late 50s or early 60s) he produces very > clear ejectives at the ends of some words in pre-pausal position, > particularly with final /k/, but I can't recall if he does it in > mid-sentence. If I can find the recording, I'll have to go back > and check, but my suspicion is that it is largely a pre-pausal/ > sentence-final phenomenon.
Emphatic, my intuitions tell me. Pre-pausal is default but not the necessary position for emphaticness. --And.