NOUN
- a stop consonant articulated by releasing pressure at the glottis; as in the sudden onset of a vowel
How To Use glottal stop In A Sentence
- I think that in addition to English favoring closed syllables, it tends to have an audible glottal stop between words, like other Germanic languages. L'accent tonique - French Word-A-Day
- The Glaswegian glottal stop faded, the vocabulary expanded, and there were rare, uneven attempts at conversation. AN OLDER WOMAN
- He told his story straight, in his harsh, crackling voice, speaking in the local dialect with the local speech pattern of glottal stops and swallowed words and sentences spoken on an ingoing breath. A Small Death in the Great Glen
- Historically, qaf merged with the hamza (the glottal stop), except in some restricted domains mainly religious ones.
- Waymamba taught us the sounds of Yolngu Matha, the retroflexed T that sounds like an ‘rt’, like watu, dog, the elusive ‘ng’ that emerges from the back of the throat, heard in the word Yolngu, and the glottal stop that sounds like a hiccup.
- Tropylium: My previous suggestion of insertion of a glottal stop, BTW, has the plus side that glottal stops exist beforehand in the language, while geminates do not ... A few more words on my new Gemination rule for Pre-IE
- Cuneiform was in many ways unsuited to Akkadian: among its flaws was its inability to represent important phonemes in Semitic, including a glottal stop, pharyngeals, and emphatic consonants.
- He even has the diphthongs down, the epiglottal stops, everything. Bloodhype
- the glottal stop and uvular `r' and `ch' in German `Bach' are guttural sounds
- I've been thinking lately of moraicity and glottal stops, myself, because if we know that glottal stops, by their nature, are incapable of bearing morae, then they shouldn't be able to lend the second mora in the lengthened vowels that they are expected to produce... unless... the glottal stop has already eroded to something more vowel-like! Against the *dkmtóm camp
