glottal

Example Sentences

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People speak differently, her son picking up so-called “Multicultural London English” rather than the “Cockney vowels and glottal stops” of her father’s generation.

From Los Angeles Times

The language is famously difficult with tones and glottal stops unlike anything in English.

From Los Angeles Times

It is there that they must await further orders from their sinister cockney boss, Harry, played with a variety of quaint glottal stops and Pinteresque menace by Fiennes.

From The Guardian

But Garcia’s intra-line breaks feel more pronounced than commas; I hear them almost the way I hear Notley’s quotation marks, a mental glottal stop; a visual fake punch to make you flinch.

From New York Times

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