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- adjective Pertaining to the
epiglottis - adjective phonetics Produced using the epiglottis
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Examples
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Very stuffy nose + scratchy raw throat + epiglottal snot goblins.
Odin's Day chebutykin 2009
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The other is the use of "plain laryngeal" and "emphatic laryngeal" instead of "glottal" and "epiglottal", which took me a long time to figure out -- but at least the distinctions between glottal, epiglottal and pharyngeal are made at all!
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They are mostly concerned with mastering the hypnotic epiglottal tone that entrances the bottom feeders, sort of like the eerie tones that only canines can hear.
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"And so you've stuffed yourself as full of verbs and prepositional phrases and epiglottal stops as a grilled pepper!
Icerigger Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1974
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He even has the diphthongs down, the epiglottal stops, everything. "
Bloodhype Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1973
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He even has the diphthongs down, the epiglottal stops, everything. "
Bloodhype Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1973
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He even has the diphthongs down, the epiglottal stops, everything. "
Bloodhype Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1973
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