| Most English speakers find it difficult to articulate a vowel without the support of an initial consonant, the default being the glottal stop. |
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| Let's imagine a language that adds glottal stops to beginnings of words if they start with vowels, and deletes final vowels. |
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| Phoneticians disagree as to whether the glottal stop precedes or follows the consonant. |
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| No previous knowledge is required, although familiarity with the glottal stop and tolerance of torrential profanity is a necessity. |
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| This brief disruption of the pitch is a sign of some kind of glottal stricture, short of a full glottal stop. |
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| The sign hamza also represents a glottal stop and is transliterated in the same way. |
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| She employs dramatic chest tones and an occasional glottal attack in her denunciation of the oracles. |
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| Water would have been excluded from the trachea during normal swimming and in heavy seas, by a glottal valve and a large muscular tongue. |
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| In English, words that would otherwise begin with a vowel have a glottal stop inserted. |
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| Modern phoneticians would more precisely categorize such consonants into velar, uvular, pharyngeal, and glottal articulations. |
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| He is Scottish at a time when it is no longer a disadvantage to have a glottal stop and a colourful vocabulary. |
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| But it is certainly possible to distinguish between two glottal stops morphophonologically. |
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| She talks in an aggressive estuary accent, liberally dotted with glottal stops. |
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| Moreover, fricatives can be targeted by the glottal feature, but are optimally realised as sonorants in such cases. |
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| Not only is the glottal stop in the ascendancy in its former stamping-ground, but it is spreading eastwards to assault the tender eardrums of well-heeled Edinburghers. |
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| I migrated to Australia in 1960, and so have missed the rise of Estuary English and the ascendancy of the glottal stop in the UK, which John Sturrock discusses. |
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| This spectrum is deconvoluted to delete the glottal source influence, and keep only the vocal tract resonator frequency curve. |
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| An apostrophe called a glottal stop represents a space and a slight pause. |
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| In many urban dialects of British English, however, glottal stops are more widely used, particularly by younger working-class speakers in London, Glasgow, etc. |
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| The glottal stop earns its own chapter, being such a dialectic phenomenon. |
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| The most significant change directed by Aiono Fanaafi was that of removing from written Samoan the use of glottal stops and macrons. |
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| It has four combinations of tones, plus glottal and aspirated stops. |
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| Then adjust the selection range so that it starts just after the glottal stop, and ends after the consonant and its aspiration noise are finished. |
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| A synthetic glottal source is generated, at the required pitch. |
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| Then it stores only the vocal tract spectrum, and will apply a generated glottal source to this spectrum to simulate the original recorded phoneme being sung at any pitch. |
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| This program allows to evaluate the glottal efficiency, i.e. a ratio between the quantity of acoustic energy and the quantity of aerodynamic energy used for this production. |
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| The aim of RealSinger is, for each phoneme of a given language, to apply a deconvolution to the recorded signal in order to separate the glottal source and vocal tract spectra. |
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| The many melismas and other ornamenting motives heard in the chant contrast sharply with a substantial use of the glottal stop in the sung text. |
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| It must raise a problem robbing a shop, Orders unclear due to their glottal stop. |
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| I should point out that the tendency for stops to debuccalize to glottal stop and fricatives to glottal fricative does not always hold. |
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| Among the very few cases where they do, are pharyngealization in Nootka, which occurs on the glottal stop only, and labialization in Kabardian. |
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| I have addressed precisely this question in earlier work, where I argue that Nhanda glottal stop derives from an earlier glide or rhotic. |
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| Laryngeal examinations almost always reveal diffuse but variably severe supraglottal and glottal erythema and edema. |
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| Also known as the pulse register phonation or glottal fry, vocal fry is a quality of the lowest registers of the human voice. |
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| These outside effects are evident already, for example, in the spread of the glottal stop of Estuary English. |
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| Yucatec Maya is glottalized in some consonants, tonal in certain vowels, and uses glottal stops. |
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| First tone vowels are neither pharyngealized, nor accompanied by a glottal stop. |
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| The fricative g and plosive q are likely to be interchangeable allophones of a single glottal phoneme. |
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| Thus, uvular, pharyngeal, and glottal fricatives never contrast with approximants. |
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| Yet such words are said to begin with a vowel in German but a glottal stop in Arabic. |
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| For the insertion of glottal stops before certain consonants, see Glottalization below. |
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| Some sources have described it as a glottal stop, but this is a very infrequent realization, and today phoneticians consider it a phonation type or a prosodic phenomenon. |
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| Is it Scarlett Johansson, with her crisply modulated English tones or the glottal stop Scots whose dialogue is almost certain to be deemed by many to be incomprehensible? |
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| Something should be done urgently to safeguard a language that already has enough to contend with in the form of estuary English, glottal stops and grunts. |
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| There is a particular delight and satisfaction in being able to transcribe every utterance from a Zulu click to a glottal stop in the speech production of a Yorkshireman. |
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| A rhotic speaker may use alternative strategies to prevent the hiatus, such as the insertion of a glottal stop to clarify the boundary between the two words. |
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| The glottal closure overlaps with the consonant that it precedes, but the articulatory movements involved can usually only be observed by using laboratory instruments. |
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