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In both RP and GA, /t/-replacement is found in absolute final position: let's start [lɛʔ stɑː(ɹ)ʔ] what [wɒʔ] or [wɐʔ] foot [fʊʔ] T-glottalization is believed to have been spreading in Southern England at a faster rate than th-fronting [citation needed].
In some consonant clusters, glottal replacement of /t/ is common even among RP speakers. Geordie English has a unique form of glottalization involving glottal reinforcement of t, k, and p, for example in "matter", "lucky", and "happy". T, k, p sounds between vowels are pronounced simultaneously with a glottal stop represented in IPA as p͡ʔ ...
H-dropping or aitch-dropping is the deletion of the voiceless glottal fricative or "H-sound", [h]. The phenomenon is common in many dialects of English , and is also found in certain other languages, either as a purely historical development or as a contemporary difference between dialects.
Stops, chiefly the voiceless stops, and especially /t/, are frequently glottalized or pre-glottalized in certain positions; that is, a stop may be replaced with the glottal stop [ʔ], or else a glottal stop may be inserted before it. These phenomena are strongly dependent on the phonetic environment and on dialect.
H-dropping, for example house [æːs] Replacement of [t] in the middle or end of a word with a glottal stop; for example hit [ɪʔ] Diphthong shift of /iː/ to [əi] (for example beet [bəiʔ]), /eɪ/ to [aɪ] (for example bait [baɪʔ]), /aɪ/ to [ɒɪ] (for example bite [bɒɪʔ]), and /ɔɪ/ to [oɪ] (for example, boy [boɪ].
Examples from RP where /t/ is replaced by a glottal stop are: "that table" [ðæʔ 'teɪbəl], "Scotland" ['skɒʔlənd], "witness" ['wɪʔnəs]. [28] The most extreme case of glottal replacement is when a glottal stop takes the place of /t/ between vowels (normally when the preceding vowel is stressed).
The voiceless glottal fricative, sometimes called voiceless glottal transition or the aspirate, [1] [2] is a type of sound used in some spoken languages that patterns like a fricative or approximant consonant phonologically, but often lacks the usual phonetic characteristics of a consonant.
Especially in the South Sulawesi branch, most languages have turned word-final *t and *k into a glottal stop. [7] In every Gorontalic language except Buol and Kaidipang, *k was replaced by a glottal stop, and lost altogether in word-initial position: *kayu → Gorontalo ayu ' wood ', *konuku → olu'u ' fingernail '.