Re[4]: [tied] PIE *a -- a preliminary checklist

At 12:29:13 AM on Thursday, February 14, 2008, Rick
McCallister wrote:

> --- "Brian M. Scott" <BMScott@...> wrote:

>> At 10:52:53 PM on Wednesday, February 13, 2008,
>> fournet.arnaud wrote:

[...]

>>> in English, the presence of a little glottalic attack at
>>> the beginning of the word is automatic.

>> Everyday observation shows that it isn't.

> Compared to (most forms of) Spanish, I definitely hear
> a glottal stop with words beginning with vowels.
> People often run them together in colloquial speech.
> But even in colloquial speech I almost always hear a
> glottal stop between a word ending in a vowel and a
> following word beginning with a vowel.

It certainly can be there, but quite often there's a glide
instead, or in some varieties intrusive /r/, or nothing at
all.

Brian