Definition of GLOTTAL. Meaning of GLOTTAL. Synonyms of GLOTTAL

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Definition of GLOTTAL

Glottal
Glottal Glot"tal, a. Of or pertaining to, or produced by, the glottis; glottic. Glottal catch, an effect produced upon the breath or voice by a sudden opening or closing of the glotts. --Sweet.

Meaning of GLOTTAL from wikipedia

- The glottal stop or glottal plosive is a type of consonantal sound used in many spoken languages, produced by obstructing airflow in the vocal tract or...
- Glottal can mean: related to the glottis related to the vocal folds glottal consonant related to glottalization This disambiguation page lists articles...
- transcription delimiters. Glottalization is the complete or partial closure of the glottis during the articulation of another sound. Glottalization of vowels and...
- Glottal consonants are consonants using the glottis as their primary articulation. Many phoneticians consider them, or at least the glottal fricative...
- The voiceless glottal fricative, sometimes called voiceless glottal transition or the aspirate, is a type of sound used in some spoken languages that...
- § Brackets and transcription delimiters. In English phonology, t-glottalization or t-glottalling is a sound change in certain English dialects and accents,...
- The voiced glottal fricative, sometimes called breathy-voiced glottal transition, is a type of sound used in some spoken languages which patterns like...
- The glottalic theory is that Proto-Indo-European had ejective or otherwise non-pulmonic stops, *pʼ *tʼ *kʼ, instead of the plain voiced ones, *b *d *ɡ...
- Glottalized clicks are click consonants pronounced with closure of the glottis. All click types (alveolar ǃ, dental ǀ, lateral ǁ, palatal ǂ, retroflex...
- called glottal stop, is an alphabetic letter in some Latin alphabets, most notably in several languages of Canada where it indicates a glottal stop sound...