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glottal replacement

French translation: coup de glotte

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English term or phrase:glottal replacement
French translation:coup de glotte
Entered by: Virginie Langlois

15:20 Aug 19, 2008
English to French translations [PRO]
Medical - Linguistics / Orthophonie
English term or phrase: glottal replacement
Contexte : The error “non developmental patterns/substitutions” refers to unusual single phoneme substitutions (e.g. / f / for / s /), backing, weak syllable deletion, glottal replacement, and phoneme preference (e.g. substituting /w/ for every initial sound).
Virginie Langlois
Canada
Local time: 21:37
coup de glotte
Explanation:
Synonyme de "glottal stop"

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Note added at 26 mins (2008-08-19 15:46:46 GMT)
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Le terme plus savant est "GLOTTALISATION".
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CynthiaPiaud
France
Local time: 03:37
Grading comment
Merci pour ton aide!
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4 +1coup de glotte
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coup de glotte


Explanation:
Synonyme de "glottal stop"

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Note added at 26 mins (2008-08-19 15:46:46 GMT)
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Le terme plus savant est "GLOTTALISATION".

Example sentence(s):
  • In some versions of English (notably British), some consonants (notably the letter ‘t’) tend to be replaced by glottal stops (this is known as “glottal replacement”).
CynthiaPiaud
France
Local time: 03:37
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PRO pts in category: 12
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Merci pour ton aide!

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