Dictionary Definition
glottal adj : of or relating to or produced by
the glottis; "glottal stops"
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -ɒtəl
Adjective
- Of or relating to the glottis.
Derived terms
Translations
- French: glottique m|f
Extensive Definition
Glottal can mean:
- related to the glottis.
- related to the vocal folds.
- glottal consonant.
- related to glottalization.
glottal in German: Glottal
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
accented, allophone, alveolar, apical, apico-alveolar,
apico-dental, articulated, articulation, aspiration, assimilated, assimilation, back, barytone, bilabial, broad, cacuminal, central, cerebral, check, checked, close, consonant, consonantal, continuant, dental, diphthong, dissimilated, dissimilation, dorsal, epenthetic vowel,
explosive, flat, front, glide, glossal, glottalization, guttural, hard, heavy, high, intonated, labial, labialization, labiodental, labiovelar, laryngeal, lateral, lax, light, lingual, liquid, low, manner of articulation,
mid, modification, monophthong, monophthongal, morphophoneme, mute, muted, narrow, nasal, nasalized, occlusive, open, oxytone, palatal, palatalized, parasitic
vowel, peak, pharyngeal, pharyngealization,
pharyngealized,
phone, phoneme, phonemic, phonetic, phonic, pitch, pitched, plosive, posttonic, prothetic vowel,
retroflex, rounded, segmental phoneme,
semivowel, soft, sonant, sonority, speech sound,
stop, stopped, stressed, strong, surd, syllabic, syllabic nucleus,
syllabic peak, syllable, tense, thick, throaty, tonal, tonic, transition sound, triphthong, twangy, unaccented, unrounded, unstressed, velar, vocable, vocalic, vocoid, voice, voiced, voiced sound, voiceless, voiceless sound,
voicing, vowel, vowellike, weak, wide