Re: PIE *a -- a preliminary checklist

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Rick McCallister <gabaroo6958@...> wrote:

>
> 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.
> Except for Salvadoran Spanish, where <Santa Ana> is
> /santa?ana/ instead of normal /santaana/ I never hear
> that in Spanish.
>

http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/cybalist/message/25369

which is why is hard to sing rock in Romance languages and why Domingo
sounds odd when he sings Wagner.


Torsten