glottal "y"

[RonButters at AOL.COM]

Wilson, TZ doesn't know a glottal stop from a glide. The phenomenon TZ is 
talking about has I believe been much discussed in American dialectology, in 
which /E/ and /ae/ in closed syllables get raised and lengthed and tensed to [ei]. 
The next step is a bisyllable, [hei-Id], [me-In] which could also be written 
[heyId], [meyIn]. No glottal stop. 

I listened to TZ's sound file and he is saying something like [mEyIn], 
[hEyID]. No glottal stop. Certainly no "glottal y" (whatever that might be).

In a message dated 9/12/08 2:41:10 PM, hwgray at GMAIL.COM writes:


> He's talking about the _replacement_ of the "y" by a glottal stop.
> 
> -Wilson
> 
> On Fri, Sep 12, 2008 at 12:37 AM, Tom Zurinskas <truespel at hotmail.com> 
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> > I hear a lot of epenthetic (inserted) "y"'s in SW Virginia and along 
> Southern Appalachia.  For instance "The man hurt his head" sounds like ~~ Thu 
> mayun hert hiz heyud ~~  I say it  below.  Perhaps that is what's meant by 
> "glottal y"?
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