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Glottal sounds are those sounds made at the glottis. Examples of glottal sounds in English are the following: , .

The glottal stop is a type of consonantal sound used in many spoken languages produced by obstructing airflow in the vocal tract. In English, the feature is represented, for example, by the hyphen in uh-oh!

A reformulation of the theory for greater explanatory power now has features only present when they're needed, and the [anterior] feature is now a subdivision of the [Coronal] place of articulation. Other sounds, such as labials, just don't hold any value for these.

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Glottal sounds are those sounds made at the glottis. Examples of glottal sounds in English are the following: , .

The glottal stop is a type of consonantal sound used in many spoken languages produced by obstructing airflow in the vocal tract. In English, the feature is represented, for example, by the hyphen in uh-oh!

A reformulation of the theory for greater explanatory power now has features only present when they're needed, and the [anterior] feature is now a subdivision of the [Coronal] place of articulation. Other sounds, such as labials, just don't hold any value for these.

Anterior is still binary. Coronal sounds that are [+anterior] include the dental series (English th) and the alveolar (t d n l s z). The [-anterior] sounds include postalveolars such as English sh ch j, the retroflex sounds of Indian languages, and most varieties of English r.