The Glottal Stop

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The Glottal Stop

• By
• Marc Deckers, Klaus Polajner, Jael Rachel Räker

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Articulatory properties of the glottal stop

• Place of articulation
• Manner of articulation
• Airstream mechanism
• Phonation type

glottal
plosive
pulmonic egressive
voiceless
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The Glottal Stop

• speech sound articulated by a momentary, complete
  closing of the glottis in the back of the throat
• occur in many languages and usually pattern as
  consonants (e.g. English, German, Hawaiian
  etc.)

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Anatomy of the larynx
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Examples for the glottal stop
In German erinnern vereisen vs. verreisen