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consonants; implosives may themselves have modal, stiff, or creaky voice. It is not always clear from linguistic descriptions if a language has a series of light ejectives or voiceless consonants with glottal reinforcement, or similarly if it has a series of light implosives or voiced consonants with
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also regularly show pre-glottalization. In the English dialects exhibiting pre-glottalization, the consonants in question are usually glottalized in the coda position: "what" , "fiction" , "milkman" , "opera" . To a certain extent, some varieties of English have
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English has a unique form of glottalization involving glottal reinforcement of t, k, and p, for example in "matter", "lucky", and "happy". T, k, p sounds between vowels are pronounced simultaneously with a glottal stop represented in IPA as p͡ʔ, k͡ʔ and t͡ʔ.
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phonation, there is some allophony involved. In pre-final contexts, a variation occurs (especially before voiced consonants) ranging from creaky phonation throughout the vowel to a sequence of a vowel,
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glottal reinforcement. The airstream parameter is only known to be relevant to obstruents, but the first two are involved with both obstruents and sonorants, including vowels.
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Sound Change in Progress: a study of phonological change and lexical diffusion, with reference to glottalization and r-loss in the speech of some Exeter schoolchildren
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also varies, from a simultaneous single segment to an onset or coda such as or to a sequence such as or . Full or partial closure of the glottis also allows
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When a phoneme is completely substituted by a glottal stop , one speaks of glottaling or glottal replacement. This is, for instance, very common in
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When a phoneme is accompanied (either sequentially or simultaneously) by a or a , a glottal stop modifier, then one speaks of
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could be transcribed as either or . (In some typefaces, the apostrophe will occur above the m.)
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Glottalization varies along three parameters, all of which are continuums. The
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word-finally, and when followed by an unstressed vowel (including syllabic
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There are two other ways to represent glottalization of sonorants in the
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Phonological history of English consonant clusters § Glottalization
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dialects. In these dialects, the glottal stop is an allophone of
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during the articulation of another sound. Glottalization of
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Glottal replacement is not purely a feature of consonants.
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Christopherson, P. (1952). "The glottal stop in English".
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between glottal replacement and glottal reinforcement.
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See Ladefoged and Maddieson (1996:74) for the case of
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Glottal reinforcement is present in some varieties of
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Fast, Peter W. (1953). "Amuesha (Arawak) Phonemes".
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Pre-glottalization in English Standard Pronunciation
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consonants usually involves complete closure of the
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