Re: [tied] Re: crows and the glottalic theory

On Sun, 10 Nov 2002 12:17:57 +0100, Piotr Gasiorowski
<piotr.gasiorowski@...> wrote:

>Like German, Polish has no voicing contrasts before a pause (due to obligatory
>devoicing in this position), but Poles who have mastered the English contrasts
>tend to overdo the voicing and again have to practise the partial devoicing of
>/g/ in <dog> in order to avoid unnatural "declamatory" pronunciations.

Focusing on Polish now, and perhaps I asked about this before but have
forgotten the answer, przepraszam, but I have noticed among certain
Polish speakers a noticeable aspiration of unvoiced stops (perhaps
only in initial position?), especially in careful or high-register
speech. How wide-spread is this, and is this perhaps due to German
influence?

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Miguel Carrasquer Vidal
mcv@...