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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"glottal stop"”.
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Social and Linguistic Factors Conditioning the Glottal Stop in Nicaraguan Spanish
… investigates the word-final, intervocalic glottal stop [ʔ] in Nicaraguan Spanish, a highly understudied variant in an equally understudied dialect of Spanish. The glottal stop occurs most frequently in western Nicaragua as an allophone of word-final, intervocalic /s/ (the V/s/#V …
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A Sociolinguistic Study of T-glottalling in Young RP: Accent, Class and Education
… non-standard features in their accent, such as t-glottalling (Fabricius 2000). This quantitative sociophonetic study analyses to what extent t-glottalling is present in the speech of young RP speakers and which are the linguistic and social constraints that affect its variability. The data are …
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Manx English: a phonological investigation into levelling and diffusion from across the water
… forms for older) and the incoming tide of the glottal stop is reaching the Island’s shores. This thesis investigates the mechanisms of change and finds both internal and external factors affect the production of English on the Isle of Man.
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Lexical and post-lexical tones in Akan
… melody due to insertion of a pause and/or a glottal stop. Beside declination and intonation, raising of H tones applies in Akan. H raising is analyzed as a local anticipatory planning effect, employed at the phonetic level, which enhances the perceptual distance between low and high tones. …
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Spontaneous nasalization: An articulatory investigation of glottal consonants in Thai
… has been found to emerge in contexts with glottal consonants, low vowels, and transitionally breathy segments such as fricatives and aspirates. Blevins and Garrett (1992) classified these contexts as rhinoglottophilia ‘nose-larynx-affinity’, rhinochthamalophilia ‘nose-low/flat-affinity’, …