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Of, relating to, or produced with the aid of the thin elastic cartilaginous structure located at the root of the tongue that prevents food and liquid from entering the trachea during the act of swallowing

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  • The other is the use of "plain laryngeal" and "emphatic laryngeal" instead of "glottal" and "epiglottal", which took me a long time to figure out -- but at least the...
  • They are mostly concerned with mastering the hypnotic epiglottal tone that entrances the bottom feeders, sort of like the eerie tones that only canines can hear.
  • He even has the diphthongs down, the epiglottal stops, everything. "
  • "And so you've stuffed yourself as full of verbs and prepositional phrases and epiglottal stops as a grilled pepper!
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