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In tribute to Professor Sobkowiak’s well-known ability to think “outside the box”, I offer some suggestions for expanding the teaching of English phonetics so as to include functions of the glottis such as degree of aspiration, devoicing, and glottal reinforcement. I suggest that a focus on only the features which are phonologically contrastive does not give a rounded picture of the perceptually significant features of the spoken language or of its unique personality.
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My students have been, on the whole native speakers, so I must skirt around the issue of whether NNS should be encouraged to use or to simply be aware of these features.
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Shockey, L. (2015). A Personal Note on the Larynx as Articulator in English. In: Waniek-Klimczak, E., Pawlak, M. (eds) Teaching and Researching the Pronunciation of English. Second Language Learning and Teaching. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-11092-9_13
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