Fwd: "di?nt" (with glottal stop)

[Arnold M. Zwicky]

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> From: Arnold M. Zwicky <zwicky at csli.stanford.edu>
> Date: November 15, 2004 6:51:20 PM PST
> To: Alan Baragona <abaragona at sprynet.com>
> Subject: Re: "di?nt" (with glottal stop)
>
>
> On Nov 15, 2004, at 6:44 PM, Alan Baragona wrote:
>
>> I have always used this glottal stop pronunciation, not only in
>> "didn't" but
>> in "isn't" in place of the [z].  I'm white, born and brought up in
>> urban
>> North Carolina, but the rest of my family is from New Jersey.
>> I remember a childhood friend, an Air Force brat who had lived abroad,
>> remarking that he had never heard anyone pronounce <isn't> [i?nt].
>> It is
>> not particularly a North Carolina feature, so I think I got it from my
>> family.
>
> i was pretty sure this was out there, but didn't want to risk
> predicting it.  wonderful, in any case, it's just a combination of the
> /d/ for /z/ in "isn't" (and "wasn't"), which *has* been studied for
> sure, with the glottalish realization of syllable-final /d/ that i
> mentioned in my earlier posting.  cool.
>
> arnold
>