Re: ka and k^a [was: [tied] *kW- "?"]

On Fri, 23 Sep 2005 20:57:00 +0000, bmscotttg
<BMScott@...> wrote:

>--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Patrick Ryan" <proto-language@...>
>wrote:
>
>[...]
>
>> My call for references to support Brian's impression has met
>> with a resounding silence. Does that tell us anything?
>
>Yes: it tells you that I was busy teaching my two afternoon
>classes and meeting with a student.
>
>[...]

If "Brian's impression" refers to the well-known
preglottalization of final stops in English, the following
reference may serve to illustrate the point for American
English:

(From: "Perception and representation of regular variation:
The case of final /t/, Meghan Sumner, Arthur G. Samuel,
http://www.cs.sunysb.edu/~adaptation/sdarticle.pdf):

>For example, word-final /t/ can be produced
>in citation form with a fully released coronal stop,
>as a glottalized coronal stop that is coarticulated with
>both coronal and glottal place with no audible release,
>and as a glottal stop (e.g., the medial sound in the English
>word uh-oh). While it is generally accepted by linguists
>that these variants are common in American
>English, there is little research supporting this claim.
>There is evidence that these three variants are regularly
>occurring in the Long Island dialect of American English
>(Huffman, personal communication, September 7,
>2004), the population examined in our study. Huffman
>(1998) found that all three variants occur regularly in
>the Long Island dialect of American English. Furthermore,
>at the end of an intonation phrase (i.e., word-final
>position before a pause), 70% of final-/t/ words are produced
>as glottalized stops, with both coronal and glottal
>articulation. The remaining 30% of final-/t/ words are
>split between the canonical [t] and the glottal stop.

The reference is to: Huffman, M. (1998). Segmental and
contextual effects on coda glottalization. Journal of the
Acoustical Society of America, 103, 1818.

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Miguel Carrasquer Vidal
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