Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The production of a speech sound by narrowing of the glottis or compression of the vocal cords, resulting in creaky voice, ejective pronunciation, or other phonological changes.
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- noun linguistics The act or process of
constricting or closing theglottis during the production of a speech sound that normally does not involve such constriction. - noun linguistics Transformation of a consonant into a
glottal stop orfricative .
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Examples
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Later on, glottalization was weakened to creaky voice.
Winter's Law in Balto-Slavic, "Hybrid Theory" and phonation - Part 2 2008
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Earliest IE or maybe better Pre-IE distinguished the following co-articulated features phonemically in its stops: voicing and glottalization.
Winter's Law in Balto-Slavic, "Hybrid Theory" and phonation - Part 2 2008
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Tropylium: "I'll be very surprized if you, as a glottalic theory proponent of sorts have not seen before the argument about stød actually representing a retention of glottalization?"
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I'll be very surprized if you, as a glottalic theory proponent of sorts have not seen before the argument about stød actually representing a retention of glottalization?
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This is phonetically more similar to plain voicing than glottalization is.
Winter's Law in Balto-Slavic, "Hybrid Theory" and phonation - Part 2 2008
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How do you explain the free variation of glottalization -- a marked feature -- in English coda stops?
Winter's Law in Balto-Slavic, "Hybrid Theory" and phonation - Part 2 2008
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Rob: How do you explain the free variation of glottalization -- a marked feature -- in English coda stops?
Winter's Law in Balto-Slavic, "Hybrid Theory" and phonation - Part 2 2008
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Mahatma's Gandhi's vision of inter-cultural glottalization.
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Mahatma's Gandhi's vision of inter-cultural glottalization.
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So, if glottalization facilitates the free movement of people, Indians should in due course account for a substantial chunk of the population in all countries that are desirable destinations for migrants.
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