单词 | glottal stop |
释义 | glottal stopnoun Phonetics.a plosive consonant whose occlusion and release are accomplished chiefly at the glottis, as in the Scottish articulation of the t-sound of little, bottle, etc. a stop consonant, without release, having glottal occlusion as a secondary articulation, as in yep for yes, nope for no. Also called glottal. Origin of glottal stopFirst recorded in 1885–90 Words nearby glottal stop-glot, glottal, glottalic airstream, glottalize, glottalized, glottal stop, glottic, glottis, glottitis, glotto-, glottochronology Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 British Dictionary definitions for glottal stopglottal stop nouna plosive speech sound produced as the sudden onset of a vowel in several languages, such as German, by first tightly closing the glottis and then allowing the air pressure to build up in the trachea before opening the glottis, causing the air to escape with force Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 |
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