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It is not clear for me how "glottal stop" works there at 07:04-07:06 [
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In the first of these two versions, he pronounces a /t/' in the second, he uses a glottal stop.
 
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In the firstof these two versions, he pronounces a /t/' in the second, he uses a glottal stop.
I am a little bit confused. He speaks in the way that I hear I go..pee. So it seems like /t/ in "got "and "to" are both dropped - I don't hear them both. Can you please clarify?
 

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I agree, @svetlana14 . He omits the v sound after I and substitutes a glottal stop for the t. Both of these phenomena are common in AmE speech as well as in BrE.
 

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I agree, @svetlana14 . He omits the v sound after I and substitutes a glottal stop for the t. Both of these phenomena are common in AmE speech as well as in BrE.
What's about "ta"? I hear as for the British phenomena like "I go.....pee so I hear I go[tta] pee. Right? In other words, glottal stops here gets the whole (t and ta) omitted. Right? Or "ta" is kept but is pronounced so silent that I can hardly catch it?
 

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A glottal stop is a tiny silence. Is that what you mean?
 

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A glottal stop is a tiny silence. Is that what you mean?
As far as the British varian concerns, in one case he pronounces I gotta pee so that I hear all the words clear. In the second case, I hear kind of I go [silent] pee.
 

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That's exactly what I hear too.
 

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As far as the British varian concerns, in one case he pronounces I gotta pee so that I hear all the words clear. In the second case, I hear kind of I go [silent] pee.
Now I got it. Gotta is the same case as in "butter" with T-glottalising.
 

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By the way, you should have written: as far as the British variant is concerned ...
 

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That's exactly what I hear too.
To be more accurate, there is barely audible "ah" sound in the end of "gotta" as the realization of glottal stop.

/ˈɡɒtə/ become a kind of /g? ah OR ə/. Correct?
 

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As far as the British varian concerns, in one case he pronounces I gotta pee so that I hear all the words clear. In the second case, I hear kind of I go [silent] pee.
The /t/ is silent, but there is a /ə/ after the glottal.
 
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