: the interruption of the breath stream during speech by closure of the glottis
Examples of glottal stop in a Sentence
Recent Examples on the WebSame glottal stops, same consonants, a lot of the same vowels.—Tomris Laffly, IndieWire, 20 June 2024 Her post-verbal texts are made of glottal stops and hisses, tongue clicks and tones pushed out from the diaphragm.—Peter Dobrin, Philly.com, 14 May 2018 His speech is unhurried and deliberate, conspicuously free of glottal stops.—Esther Mobley, San Francisco Chronicle, 12 Mar. 2018
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