tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Sun May 25 11:45:43 2003
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RE: the glottal stop
> Also note (as shown above in 'he eats') that the glottal stop only
intrudes
> if there's no previous consonant sound. In the sentence 'I ate an apple',
> only the first vowel has a glottal stop in front of it (in my dialect).
If you slur your words together into an almost single word and talk in a
manner that a class on affective communication teaches not to do, then sure,
you drop all those glottals. But if you talk in a clear, understandable
manner, the glottals are there.
> (Unless you're enunciating each word carefully, and therefore pronouncing
it
> in isolation).
DloraH