Common
T-glottalization
Pronouncing "t" as a glottal stop
T-glottalization
In English phonology, t-glottalization (also t-glottalisation) or t-glottalling is a sound change in certain English language dialects and accents, particularly in the United Kingdom, that causes the phoneme to be pronounced as the glottal stop [ʔ] in certain positions. It is never universal, especially in careful speech, and it most often alternates with other allophones of /t/ such as , [tʰ], [tⁿ] (before a nasal), [tˡ] (before a lateral), or [ɾ]. As a sound change, it is a subtype of debuccalization. The pronunciation that it results in is called glottalization. Glottal reinforcement, which is quite common in English, is a stage preceding full replacement of the stop; reinforcement and replacement can also be in free variation.
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