Re: [lojban] la .alis.

[John Cowan <cowan@ccil.org>]

Michael Everson scripsit:

> A "pause" is not the same thing as a "glottal stop", and both [ʔp] and
> final [sʔ] are quite unlikely segments; the first would tend towards
> becoming a glottalized [p’] and the second... well, is really like
> following [s] with a cough, which I don't think is the description
> you intend. Is it?

Glottal stop and pause are allophones in free variation.

In pronouncing "la .paris.", my tendency is to realize the first period as
a glottal stop in the coda of the previous syllable, /la?/, and then to
realize the second period as a true pause.

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