"di?nt" (with glottal stop)

[Beverly Flanigan]

First language English acquisition people always cite "uh oh" as an early
utterance of babies, and they note that early words with final stops often
substitute the glottal stop instead.  I have no reason to think it would be
any different with little black children, unless someone can cite evidence
to the contrary.  (Roger Brown's landmark _A First Language_ (1973) notes
this in the productions of his three case studies, Adam, Eve, and Sarah;
Adam was black.)

At 11:45 AM 11/16/2004, you wrote:
>In a message dated  Mon, 15 Nov 2004 00:31:21 -0500,  Wilson Gray
><wilson.gray at RCN.COM> writes:
>
> >  Until ca.1961, I never heard the glottal stop used by anyone, black or
> >  white, except in British movies.
>
>Di?nt you ever hear anyone say "uh-oh" when something went wrong or use
>"uh-uh" (sometimes spelt "unh-uh") as a negative mumble?  MWCD10 has
>"uh-oh" dated
>with a surprisingly late 1971 as pronounced "usu with strong glottal stops
>before the vowels) and "uh-uh" dated as "ca. 1924" as pronounced "two
>[nasal] m's
>or two [nasal] n's preceded by glottal stops".
>
>English, the only Indo-European language to have dispensed with gutturals in
>recorded history, is also the first Indo-European language to introduce
>glottal stops!