GLOTTAL STOP /ʔ/ AND LITTLEST THINGS

(By Rosa Maté Ibáñez and Ana López Pozo)

It's the little things that make the difference.

In this song, Littlest Things by Lilly Allen (made popular by the viral power of the net), you can learn to identify and practice glottal stop, represented in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /ʔ/. This is produced by obstructing the airflow in the vocal tract. In certain positions it may