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on 2/26/02 9:17 PM, Mike Wright at darwin@hidden.email wrote: > Ray Bergman wrote: > > [...] >> The sound before a word beginning with a vowel is a glottal stop. > [...] > > In some languages, such as Arabic or Hokkien, it is phonemic, but in > others, such as most (all?) English dialects, it is not, and often > occurs only after a pause. If I say, "That is an ugly old owl", I can > do it without a single glottal stop. And I do as well. In my dialect, tho, I use a glottal stop in 'button'. -- >PLEASE NOTE MY NEW E-MAIL ADDRESS: rmay@hidden.email > Rex F. May (Baloo) > Daily cartoon at: http://www.cnsnews.com/cartoon/baloo.asp > Buy my book at: http://www.kiva.net/~jonabook/gdummy.htm > Language site at: http://www.geocities.com/ceqli/Uploadexp.htm >Discuss my auxiliary language at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/txeqli/