Re: Is this a glottal stop?

From: Derek Rogers (derek_at_derek.co.uk)
Date: 08/01/04 

Date: Sun, 01 Aug 2004 20:27:05 +0100

On Sat, 31 Jul 2004 01:44:44 GMT, "Rex F. May" <rex.may@comcast.net>
wrote:

>in article 410AD432.30D94FE8@backpacker.com, Bill Bonde ( ``Soli Deo
>Gloria'' ) at stderr2@backpacker.com wrote on 7/30/04 5:05 PM:
>>
>> "Rex F. May" wrote:
>>>
>>> in article ml1lg0d1ikbns1l2enscolte4ls0t2jv84@4ax.com, Mxsmanic at
>>> mxsmanic@hotmail.com wrote on 7/30/04 11:35 AM:
>>>
>>>> Rex F. May writes:
>>>>
>>>>> I'd guess that depends on dialect. No glottal stop when I say it.
>>>>
>>>> You don't hear a kind of stop in "the only" when "the" is pronounced
>>>> /D@/? I seem to hear one in my (general American) speech.
>>>
>>> No, I speak South Midlands. Born and raised in Terre Haute. I almost say
>>> "Th'only one." in my normal speech.
>>>
>> You say "th'only"?
>>
>Almost. It seems to me a very short schwa that glides into the o.

Standard Southern British has /D@/ before consonants and /Di/ before
vowels. There can be a yod-glide between the vowels, but not a glottal
stop. Everybody in SE England does this.

In Scotland, on the other hand, they delete the vowel of the article
before a vowel (I think there may be a fleeting schwa).. I fly a lot
between London and Glasgow, and now know what to do in "th'unlikely
event of th'aircraft landing on water". The cabin staff do this stuff
89 times a day. so they do it very fast and bored, and it provides a
wonderful corpus of reduced forms!

Derek Rogers

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