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From: rdd@usa1.com (Aaron J. Dinkin)
Subject: Re: Glottal stop in English (was Re: Languages: Hard, Harder, Hardest)
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Date: Tue, 13 Aug 1996 17:15:22 -0500
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In article <3210925D.10A8@beehive.twics.com>, abfab@beehive.twics.com wrote:

> Aaron J. Dinkin wrote:
> > 
> > In article <4u8mj9$kj2@news3.digex.net>, kcivey@cpcug.org (Keith C.
Ivey) wrote:
> > 
> > > acs@peavine.com (Jensen) wrote:
> > >
> > > >What about within the same word?  Do not naive, coincidence,
> > > >cooperate all exhibit a glottal stop?
> > >
> > > Not in my dialect--at least in normal speech.  I seem
> > > to say something like /na 'jiv/, /k@ 'wIn s@ d@ns/, and
> > > /k@ 'wa p@r eIt/.
> > 
> > I have /naI'iv/, /ko'Ins@d@ns/, and /ko'Ap@ret/ (although I admit that
> > those /ko'I/ and /ko'A/ are generally [k@'wI] and [k@'wA] allophonically.
> > 
> > -Aaron J. Dinkin
> > Dr. Whom
> 
> The frequencies of use of glottal stops/plosives seem often
> underestimated. Take, for example, co-operate: some speakers may use a
> glottal stop instead of a /w/ glide to link the dipthong and vowel of
> the first syllable, but what about the use of a glottal stop (full or
> partial)to reduce pressure before the /t/ at the end of the word (though
> this, of course, would also depend on where in the utterance the word is
> sited)?

Many dialects (including my own) use [?] as an allophone for /t/ or /p/ in
an unstressed /t@n/ or /p@m/, typically at the end of a word: "button" is
['bV?n-]; "batten" is ['b&?n-]. If there's a nasal before the /t/ or /p/,
it is reduced to nasalization of the preceding vowel: "Taunton" is
['tA~?n-]; "wampum" is ['wA~?m-]. I'm sure the same thing would happen to
/k/, but /@N/ never occurs in my dialect.

-Aaron J. Dinkin
Dr. Whom

