Re: Guttoral stop

Young Sociolinguist wrote:
John of Aix wrote:
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.


I'm interested now but I can't see where other the example I give, and
when the 'h' is asîrate (but un heard) so no elision is made, the
differences beweeen 'l'habitude' and 'le haut', in the latter the 'h'
being aspirate so causing a certain amount of breath stop to separate
the words, if not quite a glottal stop.


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