hi there, I want to ask a question on glottal stop. Do you think that the 'I'd' in an expression: 'I'd like to' is a glottal stop? Simon

hi there, Thanks a lot. About glottal stop, do you think that the 'I'd' in an expression: 'I'd like to' is a glottal stop? simon

Ah I see. It may be true for RP, but for NAE, I think is sounds more like a glottal stop, but it's a little hard to tell. When I say "He cooked all the food it sounds like this: wheras when I say: "He cut all of the carrots" it sounds like this

It's not really possible to pronounced a consonant cluster such as in English. It's actually usually pronounced as a glottal stop. Thus cooked = . So: "He cooked the meat."

Interesting. I would pronounce Yosemite as with a glottal stop at the end. I've never heard the word being pronounced before. Is it supposed to be pronounced as / jozm@Iti / or / jozmIti / instead?

The first one "develop" is pronounced with an unreleased "p", the second is said with an unaspirated "p" followed by a glottal stop. The word "the" has nothing to do with the previous word and doesn't affect the pronuncation.

If you're aiming for a British accent, the vowel sound in the words can and are very different. In North American English, the vowel is the same for both, but /t/ is usually realised as a glottal stop at the end of "can't".

I believe I actually do not say a at all, but rather realise the /d/ as a glottal stop. Thus .

Very nice, thank you. It's precisely what I needed to study the finer points of the phonetic alphabet. I have a question though. What is the reasoning behind terminology like "h-dropping" and "glottal reinforcement"? I mean, is there a

Hard to pin it all down exactly. It's just generally 'off'. However, some specificic points are that all the 'i's sound Australian rather than cockney. the th should sound like v. Wiv not with. The 't's are not right either - he can't do the