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Glottal Stop

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Noun

1. glottal catch, glottal plosive, glottal stop

a stop consonant articulated by releasing pressure at the glottis; as in the sudden onset of a vowel

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Glottal Stop

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noun
a plosive speech sound produced as the sudden onset of a vowel in several languages, such as German, by first tightly closing the glottis and then allowing the air pressure to build up in the trachea before opening the glottis, causing the air to escape with force

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Glottal Stop

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Phonetics
a speech sound (IPA symbol [ʾ]) articulated by a momentary complete closing of the glottis
it is sometimes heard as a variant for medial t (as in bottle or water) in some English dialects, and is the medial sound in the negative expression conventionally spelled unh-unh in English

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Glottal Stop

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n.
A speech sound produced by a momentary complete closure of the glottis, followed by an explosive release, as in the middle of the interjection uh-oh or between the two i's in some pronunciations of Hawaii.

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