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Definition: Glottal Stop |
Glottal StopNoun1. A stop consonant articulated by releasing pressure at the glottis; as in the sudden onset of a vowel. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
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In phonetics, the glottal stop is a guttural sound that is made when the glottal folds are pressed together.
In most languages in which it is found it precedes an initial vowel and usually is not rendered in writing in such cases. Sometimes it occurs in the middle of a word between two vowels. In English it is used in several accents (eg. Cockney) as a replacement for the phoneme /t/. (Thus a phrase like "Luton Airport" would be rendered as "Lu'on Airpor'".)
In many other languages, it is a full phoneme by itself. In these cases, it is sometimes written as an opening single quote ‘, as in Hawai‘ian, where it is called ‘okina. Other examples of language using phonemic glottal stop are Nahuatl and many other Native American languages, Samoan, Hebrew, Arabic, and Japanese.
A German language example of the glottal stop is "Beamter". A fairly universal English language example would be "uh-uh". English speakers often have difficulty perceiving this sound, since it is either "invisible" or an allophone of another phoneme.
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Synonyms: Glottal StopSynonyms: glottal catch (n), glottal plosive (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Glottal Stop |
| English words defined with "glottal stop": guttural. (references) |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
glottal stop | 7 |
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| Language | Translations for "glottal stop"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Chinese | 喉塞音 . (various references) | |
German | knacklaut. (various references) | |
Hungarian | hangszalag-zárhang. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ottalglay opstay.(various references) | |
Swedish | glottisstöt. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-g-l-l-o-o-p-s-t-t-t" | |
-3 letters: galloots, goalpost. | |
-4 letters: apollos, apologs, galloot, gallops, galoots, glottal, latosol, tattoos. | |
-5 letters: allots, apollo, apolog, atolls, gallop, galoot, galops, gloats, lottos, postal, potato, pottos, saloop, tattoo, totals. | |
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