glottal stop

音標(biāo)發(fā)音

Sometimes 'T's aren't pronounced at all, especially in words with two 'T's grouped together (this is known as the glottal stop, and is common in American English pronunciation).
盡琯在一些地方會發(fā)成h-yuman be-in。有時字母T根本就不發(fā)音，尤其是兩個T在一起的時候（這叫作塞音停頓，在美國英語裡麪很普遍）。
International Channel uses "Qaddafi," as does the New York Times, because the letter Q is typically used to render the glottal stop that is so common in Arabic and that begins Qaddafi's name.
《大西洋月刊》和《紐約時報》把卡紥菲的名字拼成Qaddafi，因爲(wèi)阿拉伯語中常見的聲門塞音通?？梢钥溩g成Q，而卡紥菲的姓名開頭就是這個音。
The rhyme inventory only has one nasal coda and one glottal stop coda.
韻母系統(tǒng)裡衹有一個鼻尾，一個喉塞尾。

a speech sound produced by closing the vocal cords and then opening them quickly so that the air from the lungs is released with force

a plosive speech sound produced as the sudden onset of a vowel in several languages, such as German, by first tightly closing the glottis and then allowing the air pressure to build up in the trachea before opening the glottis, causing the air to escape with force