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

True, in Mississippi, I often heard "I saw it" as /ay
sO-R-It/, which I heard as well from people from
Anglia

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

> 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
>
>
>

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