GUTTURAL
Concise Oxford Companion to the English Language
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GUTTURAL. A general term for sounds made in or near the throat, such as the velar fricative in German
Achtung and ScoE
loch, the uvular
r in Parisian French
derrière, and the pharyngeal
ARABIC sounds known as '
ayn and
ghayn. The term is imprecise and little used by phoneticians. It is often used loosely when describing English spoken with a ‘throaty’ foreign
ACCENT: ‘ “I had some criticisms of my own education,” he said in his slow guttural, uncompromised by 50 years of living and working in the USA’ (referring to Bruno Bettelheim,
Observer, 6 Sept. 1987). See
BURR,
PHARYNX,
UVULA,
VELUM.
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