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travamento glotal fonético

English translation: phonetically generated glottal stop

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Portuguese term or phrase:travamento glotal fonético
English translation:phonetically generated glottal stop
Entered by: zabrowa

12:40 Apr 12, 2007
Portuguese to English translations [PRO]
Science - Linguistics / phonology
Portuguese term or phrase: travamento glotal fonético
As raízes e os afixos de posição medial na palavra que se finalizam em sílabas abertas acentuadas têm suas vogais finais alongadas ou apresentam travamento glotal fonético, resultantes da necessidade de peso silábico para a realização do acento

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The word-medial roots and the affixes ending in stressed open syllables have their final vowels lengthened or....
zabrowa
Local time: 08:43
phonetically generated glottal stop
Explanation:
My interpretation of your text:

"Because of the need for syllabic weight to carry the stress, when roots and word-medial affixes end in a stressed open syllable, the final vowel is lengthened or else comes to a phonetically generated glottal stop."

It's also OK to say "phonetic glottal stop," but the underlying idea is that the phonetic environment triggers this stop - it's not a phoneme in the language.


However, it seems that languages (like English and Japanese) which I assumed allow V initial syllables, do in fact show a phonetic glottal stop onset before ...
linguistlist.org/issues/7/7-1698.html
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Muriel Vasconcellos
United States
Local time: 23:43
Grading comment
Your interpretation is incredibly helpful. This is much smoother reading now! Thanks a lot.
4 KudoZ points were awarded for this answer



Summary of answers provided
4phonetically generated glottal stop
Muriel Vasconcellos
2 +1phonetical glottal stop/break
Denise Miranda


  

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24 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 2/5Answerer confidence 2/5 peer agreement (net): +1
phonetical glottal stop/break


Explanation:
Matt, é só uma sugestão, já que eu não trabalho na área.

glotal vem de glote:
Aurélio:
1. Abertura, em forma de pequena língua, existente na laringe, entre as bordas livres das cordas vocais inferiores.

Denise Miranda
Local time: 03:43
Native speaker of: Native in PortuguesePortuguese
PRO pts in category: 8
Notes to answerer
Asker: Well, one option is a "phonetic glottal stop" - this would be grammatical - though usually I see other terms for STOP in this sense...


Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Cristina Santos: sim, deve ser glottal stop, mas menciona vogais e isso confunde um pouco... se bem me lembro das aulas de fonética inglesa, glottal stop ocorre em consoantes...
4 mins
  -> Obrigada, Cristina!
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7 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
phonetically generated glottal stop


Explanation:
My interpretation of your text:

"Because of the need for syllabic weight to carry the stress, when roots and word-medial affixes end in a stressed open syllable, the final vowel is lengthened or else comes to a phonetically generated glottal stop."

It's also OK to say "phonetic glottal stop," but the underlying idea is that the phonetic environment triggers this stop - it's not a phoneme in the language.


However, it seems that languages (like English and Japanese) which I assumed allow V initial syllables, do in fact show a phonetic glottal stop onset before ...
linguistlist.org/issues/7/7-1698.html


Muriel Vasconcellos
United States
Local time: 23:43
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Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 2542
Grading comment
Your interpretation is incredibly helpful. This is much smoother reading now! Thanks a lot.
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