at a homeless shelter. Father also filed an
objection to the order to dismiss the dependency, which was joined by


4      A safety plan had been developed that if Father was not able to pick
up the children from daycare or if one of the children were sick and unable
to go to daycare, Mother would contact an approved friend or family
member to stay with her and the children until Father could come home.

5     Father had also been leaving the children alone with Mother, and he
subsequently tested positive for methamphetamines and opiates.


                               occur before preglottalized consonants? Hmm. That's news to an English speaker then because in order to account for lengthening of preceding vowels as in "nab" vs. "nap", "bid" vs. "bit" and "bag" vs. "back", I guess you'll have to claim that "b", "d" and "g" are preglottalized instead of semi-voiced. Perhaps you should do a perusal through this nifty pdf: Voice Onset Time and the Scottish Vowel Length Rule in Aberdeen English. By way of the Scottish Vowel Length Rule, vowels are lengthened before voiced fricatives. No glottalization required.

Also, you may want to respond to Fortson's skepticism of Winter's Law, the lengthening law that you're alluding to, in his influential book Indo-European Language and Culture: An Introduction (2004) on page 365. The original formulation of Winter's Law, from