Information AboutGlottalization |
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Glottalization is the complete or partial closure of the Glottis during the articulation of another sound. Glottalization of Vowel s and Voiced Consonant s is most often realized as Creaky Voice (partial closure). Glottalization of voiceless consonants usually involves complete closure of the Glottis ; another way to describe this phenomenon is to say that a Glottal Stop is made simultaneously with another consonant. Ejective s and Implosive s are sometimes thought of as kinds of glottalized consonants. However, they involve a very different Airstream Mechanism than the Pulmonic Egressive sounds discussed here. In English , voiceless Stops are frequently glottalized at the ends of words:
While glottalization is Phonemic in some languages, in English it is strictly Allophonic , meaning it behaves as a variation of another sound. There are two other ways to represent glottalization in the word for ''sick'' with a glottalized ''m'' could be transcribed as either or . (In some typefaces, the apostrophe will occur above the em.) |
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