Nov 21, 2017 · In phonetics, there is a distinction among: hard vocal onset - effectively this is most typically the glottal stop; the exact realisations sometimes differ (e.g. strident phonation / harsh voice instread of a stop) but that corresponds in the variation of of glottal stop phonemes too; hard voice onset is typical e.g. for Czech, where most of the times all word initial vowels …

However, "glottal stop" is also meaningful because glotti is really the space in between the vocal folds, so it naturally creates the absence of a sound when it's active. – Luboš Motl Commented Nov 21, 2017 at 14:02

In spontaneous speech in both languages, the glottal stop may or may not be observed and its presence often depends on level of emphasis, as you mention. It would be interesting to find out if there are cases of truly obligatory glottal stop insertion that is phonologically conditioned.

Oct 15, 2015 · Some examples from Danish make it appear that glottal stop has something to do with vowel shortness: læser /ˈlɛːsʌ/ "reader", læser /ˈlɛˀsʌ/ "reads" are cited in the Wikipedia article on stød. Although this is not so in English, in many languages, glottal stop is a phoneme -- just another consonant in the language's phonemic system.

Jan 26, 2015 · Is any language known to contain a glottal stop [ʔ] that isn't tenuis? For example, an aspirated glottal stop [ʔʰ], a palatalized glottal stop [ʔʲ], or a labialized glottal stop [ʔʷ]. CORRECTION: It turns out that tenuis is not the right word here. I mean glottal stops with a secondary feature, such as a aspiration or labialization.

Jan 17, 2025 · In brief, she was saying that there are two ideophones ("word[s] evoking ideas in sound imitation (onomatopoeia) to express an action, manner, or property") in Portuguese which have /i/ sounds, and differ only in three things: presence of …

Nov 3, 2020 · According to the answer on that question, English speakers usually pronounce words beginning with a vowel, with a glottal stop when following a pause. That answer explained also that [I]n Hawaiian, the distinction is phonemic i.e. /ahi/ and /ʔahi/ have different meanings .

Mar 17, 2020 · In Assyrian, glottal stops were sometimes indicated with "broken writings" (C)VC-V(C) (e.g. uṣ-am for uṣ'am; uṣam without a glottal stop would be spelled ú-ṣa-am). But this was never especially consistent—a broken spelling is a good indication that a glottal stop existed, but the lack of one doesn't indicate its absence.

a stop. This stop is pronounced by simultaneously closing the lips and glottis. So perhaps it'd be called a labio-glottal stop (à la the labio-velar approximant)? And then its release is into the next sound ([m̩]), which I guess would normally be transcribed "[m]". syllabic [m], i.e. [m̩]

Jun 26, 2015 · As reported by Lin (1977) (Phonology 14:403-436), there is no glottal stop and no initial vowels in Piro.If you can get Thargari Phonology and Morphology (T. Klokeid 1969, Pac. Ling. Series B #12), you can confirm or deny whether that too is an example.