glottal

Example Sentences

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There’s a special note of aggressive contempt that can be layered into the diphthongs and glottal stops of what linguists call Inland North American English, and Carone used it lavishly.

From New York Times

Even when a word is ground down to its smallest particles — its vowels, its “glottal stop,” as Celan put it in his most famous poem — the song remains.

From New York Times

If you say, ‘Sa-di’, it’s gone from three to two syllables and you’re using the glottal stop, which is very stigmatised.”

From The Guardian

It’s pronounced “Oh,” though if you’re feeling daring you can put a sort of glottal stop at the end.

From Washington Post

The cadence of his speech has changed, too; the curiously verb-less sentences are gone, along with the faux glottal stops.

From The Guardian