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glottal stops

glottal stops is the plural of glottal stop.

Meaning of glottal stop

Noun

glottal stop (plural glottal stops)

  1. A plosive sound articulated with the glottis.
    • Both EE and SSBE feature glottal stops – unvoiced Ts – but in EE it can happen in the middle of words – eg “wa’er for “water” – whereas in SSBE it happens only at the end of words.2023 October 31, “Language barrier: why even Harry has stopped speaking the king’s English”, in The Guardian, →ISSN, archived from the original on 13 Mar 2024
  2. The glottal stop symbol, ʔ.
    Synonyms:
    glottal plosive
  3. hiatus

Questions about glottal stops

What is glottal stops the plural of?
Glottal stops is the plural of glottal stop.

Words near glottal stops in the dictionary

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

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