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- noun The act of
preglottalizing .
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In other words, if one is going to blame Winter's Law lengthening on preglottalization (as Kortlandt does), then one is either implying that the preglottalized phoneme in question was already weakened (eg. via laryngealization), or that one is plain wrong.
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I find this implausible and unnecessary2 and I have already settled on laryngealization ie. creaky phonation, with derivative word-internal pre-laryngealization, as a superior alternative to wholesale preglottalization in all environments.
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In English however, to reinforce contrast between final "t" and final "d", preglottalization as well as vowel lengthening/shortening of a preceding vowel is used to make the contrast more audible.
Winter's Law in Balto-Slavic, "Hybrid Theory" and phonation - Part 2 2008
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