Re: the null phoneme

15-08-03 14:28, Richard Wordingham wrote:

> --- In phoNet@yahoogroups.com, Piotr Gasiorowski
> <piotr.gasiorowski@i...> wrote:

> Let's
>> hear the opinion of our native English-speakers (the avoidance of
> [?]
>> may well be a dialectal phenomenon).

> I though you distrusted native opinions!

That's a luxury I can afford if the native speakers are available for
direct observation :-)

All right, to justify my request: the members of this list are for the
most part sufficiently informed to do some useful self-observation. You
can hear the difference between a glottal stop and no glottal stop.
Untrained speakers of any language tha[?] hasn'[?] go[?] a phonemic
glo[?]al stop just can'[?] hear i[?] withou[?] some phonetic training.

Piotr