Is English getting CHOPPIER? Hard Attack!


How English is increasingly using glottal stops–for Hard Attack.

0:00 Introduction
0:30 Laryngoscopy
1:02 Glottis and Glottal Stop
2:18 Hard Attack
3:28 German Glottisschlag
4:59 Smooth Old RP
6:16 Contemporary Hard Attack
8:16 ‘the’ and ‘to’
9:35 Presentational Speech & Elocution
10:50 Linking & Advice for Learners

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Director of Manchester School of Samba at http://www.sambaman.org.uk
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