[tied] Re: 'Intrusive' phonemes in languages

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, glen gordon <glengordon01@...> wrote:

> Lars:
> > Are you sure you don't have a tiny bilabial
> > approximant tendency after all? /gO-W-aU?)
>
> Nope. My lips are too lazy to bother :) It almost
> sounds like /ga:U?/ in fact, but still not that
> extreme. If I enunciate carefully, then sure, but
> I don't seem to in colloquial, everyday speech.
>

OK. And there are languages not having to insert glottal stops or
other sounds before vowel: Papa va aller a Arles.
Quatre-vin-un with a hiatus is the correct pronunciation in France
and, as I have learnt, in Canada.

Lars