That's a very complex issue. They are used quite naturally by some speakers of RP to mark the boundaries of syllables when one syllable ends, and the other starts, with a vowel sound, as in co[FONT="]ʔ[/FONT]ordinate.Would you tell me about the " glottal stops " in the British accent? is there a special rule about applying them?
Would you tell me about the " glottal stops " in the British accent? is there a special rule about applying them?
Apart from those glottals, does Ed Miliband use Received Pronunciation? Of the two leaders (Ed Miliband and David Cameron, the current prime minister), whose accent is "purer"? So far, I have been under the impression that they both use RP, but Tdol's comment has made me (even more) curious.Those glottals are becoming more and more common- the leader of the Labour party uses them...
[...]I imagine that the Labour leader might use them less if he were prime minister.
I wonder if she'd be able to speak if her eyebrows were amputated.As a comparison, here is another video about the use of the glottal stop in place of the true t in American English. (What a gorgeous teacher she is! <3)
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