The glottal stop

3 Jun 2026 · 0 min

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Hadar Shemesh shows how to make a glottal stop, the sound you get by briefly blocking air at your vocal folds. She demonstrates it in words like kitten, bitten, and Manhattan, and explains how to hear it in natural speech.

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