Re: Glottal stops (was: B. Cthia and Nom)
Rob Zook 
Mon, 28 Apr 1997 08:39:56 -0500

At 10:54 PM 4/27/97 GMT, you wrote:
>In message <3,0,1,32,19970423163127,009f8c94*atlas> Rob Zook writes:
>> 
>> 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").
>> 
>You have effectively pointed out that glottal stops are
>very common in Cockney, if not in English. Do we have any
>Cockneys reading this who could cast light on the whole
>question? Cockneys pronounce "hospital" as "'ospi'al".

Interesting. Now that you mention it, I realize you're right.
I actually mean the way American English often sounds when
spoken. Many times the middle 't' sound in words gets replaced
with a glottal stop. I would find it facinating to see when
these variations started appearing.


Rob