Hard Attack: How English is getting more “choppy“

Younger speakers are increasingly separating words by means of glottal stops! 0:00 Introduction 0:30 Laryngoscopy 1:02 Glottis and Glottal Stop 2:18 Hard Attack 3:28 German Glottisschlag 4:59 Smooth Old RP 6:16 Contemporary Hard Attack 8:16 ’the’ and ’to’ 9:35 Presentational Speech & Elocution 10:50 Linking & Advice for Learners Thank you to all my patrons: MRI video from SPAN, USC: Dr. Sunil Verma laryngoscopy Dr. İsmail Koçak Comparing stroboscopy and high speed imaging Beth Janicek larngoscopy Auf Deutsch! Knacklaut British Pathé National Day of Prayer 1942 Donate: