Argumentative Patrick:
> Perhaps I have not really listened.
Not likely.
> Do you have a reference from a phonetician
> supporting your superior listening abilities?
Brian is backed up by a Canadian called gLeN. It's
true that Canadians often do not aspirate final
stops... hence they are "pre-glottalized". These
stops are written in IPA as a stop followed by a
symbol looking like a superscript "corner". In
Newfoundland English, "what" is often pronounced
"wha", especially when used as "eh" at the end of
sentences like "'E's been drinkin' again, wha?" :)
The "holding on" of final stops also occurs in
Cantonese and Danish, which in fact was explained
by the Danish professor in my university when I
took an Intro to IPA course as filler.
Funny how Patrick always knows better than...
everybody.
= gLeN
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