Re: glottal stop [Guttoral stop]
- From: Philip Baker <news@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 19 Feb 2006 00:30:33 +0000
In article <dt6ql2$734$1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Tony Mountifield
<tony@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes
In article <4da2VFAd1o9DFw4W@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Philip Baker <news@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
If you are French (in exile in the Western Cape), describing a glottal
stop is difficult because it is rarely used in French, but it is a
sudden closing/opening of the vocal chords (glottis). The effect is to
give a sharp start or end to a vowel or distinct break between two
consecutive vowels. It commonly replaces 't' in certain circumstances eg
'whiteness', 'that bus' and often precedes a word starting with a vowel
when speaking emphatically. (Its use in front of words beginning with a
vowel is much more common in German.)
I've just been experimenting, and I can't imagine how to begin a phrase
with a vowel and NOT use a glottal stop to start it.
That's a problem I have in learning French. The French, in spite another
poster's opinion, very rarely put a glottal stop anywhere. Although,
ranked with the other problems in trying to acquire some fluency in the
language, suppressing glottal stops is of fairly minimal importance.
--
Philip Baker
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