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.