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GLOTTAL STOP

GLOTTAL STOP. In PHONETICS, a stop sound made by bringing the VOCAL CORDS tightly together, blocking off the airstream and sealing the GLOTTIS, then releasing them suddenly. It occurs widely in the world's languages, including: (1) As an Arabic consonant, represented in script by the letter alif (and also by the sign hamza), and in Roman transliteration by the lenis symbol (or the apostrophe): 'akala ate. (2) Comparably, as a consonant in Hawaiian: a'o to teach. (3) As a sharp ‘attack’ to an opening vowel in such languages as English and German, used by default when there is no consonant at the beginning of a syllable, as in forcefully saying Anne, come here! (4) In England and parts of Northern Ireland, as an accompaniment to the voiceless stops /p, t, k, tʃ/ in a stressed syllable. (5) Widely in BrE as an optional ‘catch’ between adjacent vowels, as in co-opt, re-educate. (6) As a substitute for post-vocalic /t/ in such accents as COCKNEY and GLASGOW, in words like better, butter, a process known technically as T-glottaling. In all but the last of the above functions, the glottal stop is socially neutral, but in the sixth it is stigmatized. Because many users of English know the term only in this sense, the concept of the glottal stop has long been associated in the English-speaking world with slovenly, SUBSTANDARD speech. In its stigmatized use, it has been shown orthographically in at least three ways: by means of an apostrophe (Glasgow, be'ur bu'ur better butter); in the 1950s by the Glasgow writer Cliff Hanley as a double colon (be::er bu ::er); and in 1980 by the London writers Robert Barltrop and Jim Wolveridge by an exclamation mark (be!er bu!er). The IPA symbol is ?.

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	Glottal Stop: 101 Poems by Paul Celan. Magazine article from: Poetry; 9/1/2001; ; 700+ words ; Glottal Stop: 101 Poems by Paul Celan. Tr. by Nikolai Popov and Heather McHugh. Wesleyan University Press. $24.95. When Paul Celan (1920-19... Read more
	Managing glottal incompetence following Teflon injection.(Brief Article) Magazine article from: Ear, Nose and Throat Journal; 1/1/2001; ; 426 words ; A 76-year-old woman came to the office with a 2-year history of progressive dysphonia. Her voice had been fluctuating in quality and was weak in nature. She had received a Teflon injection 20 years earlier for left vocal fold paralysis secondary to thyroid surgery. She had noted a moderate Read more
	Managing glottal incompetence following Teflon injection. Magazine article from: Ear, Nose and Throat Journal; 1/1/2001; ; 427 words ; A 76-year-old woman came to the office with a 2-year history of progressive dysphonia. Her voice had been fluctuating in quality and was weak in nature. She had received a Teflon injection 20 years earlier for left vocal fold paralysis secondary to thyroid surgery. She had noted a moderate Read more
	The paresis podule.(LARYNGOSCOPIC CLINIC) Magazine article from: Ear, Nose and Throat Journal; 10/1/2005; ; 410 words ; ...43-year-old woman presented with dysphonia and glottic incompetence (glottal closure index (1) [GCI]: 14) after she had undergone an anterior...KK, Belafsky PC, et al. The validity and reliability of the glottal closure index (GCI). Presented at a meeting of the Western... Read more
	Blackbirds.(Poem) Magazine article from: Poetry; 4/1/2004; ; 145 words ; BLACKBIRDS Who wrote these lyrics? Glottal, the sound of water, worried over jagged rocks. Then, louder-- blackbirds flocking in the pines. The dogs twirl and snap the air... Read more
	New Year, With Nipperkin.(Poem) Magazine article from: The Antioch Review; 1/1/2006; ; 109 words ; ...Where the best laid plans of mice and men It's said, gang aft agley. Gang aft agley --that sounds just right-- Strangulated, glottal, Where violence meets backwardness Summarily throttled. So merrily and merrily The Monday doth embark Us on another work whose... Read more
	Laser for larynx/upper airway treatment.(Product Marketplace) Magazine article from: Ear, Nose and Throat Journal; 4/1/2004; 128 words ; ...range of vascular and vascular-dependent lesions of the larynx and upper airway, including recurrent respiratory papilloma, glottal dysplasia, epistaxis, and hemorrhagic telangiectasia. By delivering up to 2 joules per pulse of yellow laser energy at a wavelength... Read more
	NEWS NOTES.(brief notes from the poetry world)(Brief Article) Magazine article from: Poetry; 8/1/2001; 700+ words ; ...Griffin Poetry Prize are Anne Carson's Men in the Off Hours (Alfred A. Knopf), which won the Canadian prize, and Paul Celan's Glottal Stop: 101 Poems by Paul Celan (Wesleyan/University Press of New England), translated by Heather McHugh and Nikolai Popov, which... Read more
	Office-based procedures for the voice. Magazine article from: Ear, Nose and Throat Journal; 7/1/2004; ; 700+ words ; ...injection laryngoplasty is used for the treatment of symptomatic glottal insufficiency. Indications include unilateral vocal fold paralysis...injection principally into the mid-vocal fold, where the maximal glottal gap occurs (figure 2). In severe cases of muscular atrophy... Read more
	Imaging software for laryngology.(Brief Article) Magazine article from: Ear, Nose and Throat Journal; 8/1/2001; 165 words ; ...multiframe viewing features allow the user to delete undesirable materials and create a customized report. Relative measurements and glottal area detection can also be obtained on the video image. The program also features special zoom and cropping functions. By acoustic... Read more

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