Not at all. Or barely in my experience. Perhaps when a vowel precedes a
vowel such as in 'à actionner' if you'd call that a glottal stop.
Sorry. My French is not very good, but I do remember something like
that. Of course, it is more common if the speaker puts emphasis on the
words or wants to be heard clearly.
Re: French verb conjugation: "je harcele"? or "je harcelle"? ... IPA describes it as a central vowel with some rounding and ... At least one of the two authors of that section is French.... represent anything in the source language....broad IPA transcription.... (sci.lang)
Re: How many vowel lengths are there ... Thoma is spelt with a long o and the French... >How many vowel lengths are there in common use, ... When comparing languages, it start getting difficult. ... A Malayalam long vowel I suppose is longer than a Malayalam short ... (sci.lang)
Schwa (Re: non-phonetic english spelling) ...Vous vous fourrez tous le doigt dans l'oeil jusqu'au coude. ... There is no "French schwa"....vowel the phonetic value of which oscillates between ... (sci.lang)
Re: glottal stop [Guttoral stop] ...Philip Baker wrote: ... 'that bus' and often precedes a word starting with a vowel... vowel is much more common in German.) ... That's a problem I have in learning French.... (uk.culture.language.english)
