Talk:Glottalization

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To the anon who's been editing lately, and User:Florian G. if you're the same person: Thanks for your great additions, but it would be good if you could please use standard IPA characters. If you look in the Insert box that appears below the row of buttons marked "Save page / Show preview / Show changes" you will find the IPA characters. (Note that ə is grouped together with "Characters" rather than "IPA", and Greek letters are in "Greek".) Also, please enclose IPA transcriptions with the IPA template thus: type {{IPA|[ˈwɔːʔə]}} to get [ˈwɔːʔə]. Finally, please do not use the first person in an article (don't say things like "as far as I know" or the like) and please do not sign your user name to the article. Wikipedia is a collaborative effort, meaning every article has several authors, as listed in the page history. Thanks! User:Angr 12:26, 4 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Factual Error based on careless Anglocentrism

• "In a general way, glottalization can affect only voiceless consonnants such as /p/, /t/ or /k/, not forgetting /tʃ/ for pre-glottalization mainly."

This is only true in English, but in a worldwide scale, glottalization usually occurs with voiced plosives (b,d and, sometimes, g), particularly in Africa and Southeast Asia, whereas voiceless plosives are the least affected consonants. So please let's be less anglocentric and think of Linguistics globally. This isn't an article about English phonetics, this is an article about phonetics written in English...