glottal stop
"Well," said the president in a strangely glottal tone.
Glottal aperture may affect pitch, interacting in complex ways with airflow.
The Xhosa languages are unique in using glottal clicks.

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In speech, narrowing is used to change resonance in sounds that already have constriction at the glottal and epiglottal levels.
However, alternations show that in some cases these glottal stops are epenthetic.
I know of no analyses in the literature that assume that glottal stop is ever the product of spreading.
The uvular fricatives are realised as postvelar or velar fricatives, and the uvular /q/ is pronounced as a glottal stop.
We have just seen that glottal constriction creates strong feature-economy effects.
Figure 2 presents a video image of a phonating glottis, with glottal vocal folds adducted and ventricular folds and aryepiglottic folds in their open positions.
On the other hand, she uses glottal closure invariably before final voiceless plosives.
The majority of the 145 vowels are accompanied by secondary laryngeal, pharyngeal or glottal articulations.
In fact, 68 % of tokens have voicing throughout the interval where the glottal articulation is perceived.
Note that the prevocalic insertion of the glottal stop is not limited to word-initial positions and is thus more indicative of morphemic than word boundaries.
The glottal vocal folds can oscillate anteriorly along the ligamental glottis, while remaining open posteriorly.
All of these observations present a much more complex picture of states of the glottis than the mono-valve, mono-dimensional glottal continuum model described above.
The occurrence of the glottal stop is an automatic result of phonetic implementation, which cannot give rise to phonological contrast.
The other two show equally strong positive associations between laryngealised sounds and glottal stops, and between ejective sounds and glottal stops.
In such a pattern, nasal harmony would be facilitated by substituting a nasal or glottal stop for an obstruent stop or by deleting the latter.
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