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

Sloppy enunciation, glottal mayhem, off-kilter expressiveness and a general airlessness have killed some books read by the very person who created them.

From Washington Post

Headey, who speaks a kind of metropolitan RP spiced up with Yorkshire vowels, cockney glottal stops and Californian grammar, swears liberally and enthusiastically.

From The Guardian

In 1991 a theater critic for the Houston Post described the vocal effects as including “glottal growls, keening ululations, stuttered monosyllables, yodely register shifts, vibrato manipulation and animal sounds.”

From Los Angeles Times