"warthog" with glottal stop

[Paul Johnston]

Tom,
You finally showed a feature that isn't Inland Northern--no, not the glottal stop at the end of a syllable before a consonant beginning the next one, which is widely distributed from what I can CAUGHT in all -og words, a low-back rounded vowel (sometimes unrounded with the whole CAUGHT class, but never merged with the COT vowel).  Like me, you probably have the vowel in CAUGHT only in the word dog; all other -og items have the vowel of COT).  My Midwestern wife laughs at me for this.

Paul Johnston

On Jan 15, 2011, at 4:24 PM, Tom Zurinskas wrote:

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> It's glottal stop for me=2C ~wor'haag.  My history is below in my auto-sign=
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> Tom Zurinskas=2C from Conn 20 yrs=2C then Tenn 3=2C NJ 33=2C now FL 8.
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>> My son Doug and his friend were playing "Halo Reach" yesterday=2C and kep=
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>> talking about some kind of attack vehicle or robot called a warthog. Afte=
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>> I'd listened for about half an hour=2C there was no doubt: They were
>> pronouncing "warthog" as [wOr?hag]=2C with /t/ realized as a glottal stop=
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>> Later I asked to record Doug saying the word=2C which I'd written out. He
>> reproduced the glottal stop pronunciation. As I was about to record my
>> pronunciation=2C for later comparison=2C he said it again=2C this time as
>> [wOrDag]=2C saying that he alternated between that and the earlier one
>> depending on the situation. To me=2C his second pronunciation sounded eve=
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>> weirder=2C because it sounded like "war dog".
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>> My pronunciation has intervocalic flap as well as the [h]: [wOrDhag].
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>> I grew up in Texas=3B live now in central Ohio=2C where my sons have live=
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