Re: Glottal stops (was: B. Cthia and Nom)
Rob Zook 
Wed, 23 Apr 1997 16:31:27 -0500

At 12:02 PM 4/23/97 -0500, you wrote:
>From: Marketa J Zvelebil <marketa*harrier,ludwig,ucl,ac,uk>
>Subject: Re: Glottal stops (was: B. Cthia and Nom)
>
>>from Saul R. Epstein
>>> I'm not sure what to do with it
>>> between a vowel and a consonant, as in a'Tha...
>>>
>>> --
>>
>>Two ways to treat that a(stop) Tha or at-Tha. Depending from wich
>region
>>of Vulcan you are.
>>
>>Marketa
>
>I wonder then if the extra /t/ in the second variation is always /t/
>regardless of the following consonant, or an unaspirated version of the
>following consonant, or a voiceless stop at the same point of
>articulation as the following consonant?

It's an interesting coincidence, but _Foundations of Linguistics_
says that this is just opposite of one of the ways the glottal 
stop works in English. For example, one can pronounce bottle 
as b*tl or as b*'l (Again that * represents a International
phonetic symbol the one which looks like and upside down "c").


Rob