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glottal-stopped

glottal-stopped adjective: pronounced with a glottal stop; characterised by the use of glottal stops.

Adjective

glottal-stopped (comparative more glottal-stopped, superlative most glottal-stopped)

  1. Pronounced with a glottal stop; characterised by the use of glottal stops.
    • And in a heavy London Cockney "That's all right, isn't it?" becomes "aess aw roy? ni?" with both the "t" in "right" and "it" glottal stopped.2004, Acting with the Voice, page 56
    • Throughout Back to Black, her glottal-stopped London accent eerily combines with a Motown swing in the phrasing, each element undercutting and enhancing the other to make a smooth-rough-smooth sound that’s classic and yet also speaks of its particular moment.2015, Lidija Haas, “You don't mean dick to me”, in London Review of Books, volume 37, number 14

Forms of glottal-stopped

comparativemore glottal-stopped
superlativemost glottal-stopped

Questions about glottal-stopped

What does glottal-stopped mean?
Glottal-stopped means pronounced with a glottal stop; characterised by the use of glottal stops.
What part of speech is glottal-stopped?
Glottal-stopped is an adjective.

Words near glottal-stopped in the dictionary

  1. glottal catch
  2. glottal catches
  3. glottal fry
  4. glottal stop
  5. glottal stops
  6. glottal-stopped
  7. glottalic
  8. glottalic airstream
  9. glottalic airstreams
  10. glottalically
  11. glottaling

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