Vowel breaking in Russian

[Jules Levin]

On 9/23/2013 3:01 AM, John Dunn wrote:
> But then my question is this: are the vowels in не-а separated by a glottal stop?  And, if so, are there any other contexts in Russian where a glottal stop occurs?
>
> John Dunn.
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> Perhaps in terms of etymology (what other word(s) in Russian, by the way, show an analogous effect?), but "не-а" is firmly lexicalized (like "да нет" and "да уж"), it differs stylistically and in emphasis from "нет". In this semantic field, "aга" and "ого" seem more interesting to me phonetically, as they retain an /h/ not otherwise present in the idiolect of speakers of "standard" Russian.
>
> Stuart Goldberg
>    
My origin explanation is not inconsistent with the synchrony.  Cf. Eng. 
nope, which certainly now ends in a phoneme /p/, considered to 
originally be an artifact of emphatic closure of the lips.
Jules Levin





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