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glottal stop

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glottal stop (plural glottal stops)

  1. (phonetics) A plosive sound articulated with the glottis.
    • 2023 October 31, “Language barrier: why even Harry has stopped speaking the king’s English”, in The Guardian[1], →ISSN, archived from the original on 13 March 2024:
      Both EE and SSBE feature glottal stops – unvoiced Ts – but in EE it can happen in the middle of words – eg “wa’er for “water” – whereas in SSBE it happens only at the end of words.
  2. The glottal stop symbol, ʔ. (Can we add an example for this sense?)

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