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[HaraKiriBlade]

The glottal stop is commonly heard in English in this expression uh-uh, meaning 'no'. The two vowels in this utterance are each preceded by a momentary closing of the airstream at the glottis.

Does this mean the momentary closing of the airsteam at the glottis takes place before or after the vowels?

[Tdol]

Before for me.

[Englishuser]

It's [?@?@], where ? = glottal stop, and @=the vowel.

[BobK]

Originally Posted by HaraKiriBlade

Does this mean the momentary closing of the airsteam at the glottis takes place before or after the vowels?

Before. The word is preceded. The word is commonly misspelt 'proceeded' (I was just reading this in another thread; I won't cite the author, to spare his blushes. The misspelling probably accounts for the confusion; I don't know of any word with the prefix 'pre-' that denotes an action occurring after another.)

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[Casiopea]

If after the vowel, it'd be the hiccups.

[Casiopea]

Originally Posted by BobK

... to spare his blushes.

And [her] blushes.

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