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Of or pertaining to the larynx.not-comparablerelational
- At sight of it there commenced a series of laryngeal spasms, with clutchings at his throat, far more violent than any I had heretofore seen.
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(of a speech sound) Made by or with constriction of the larynx with only the front part of the vocal cords vibrating, giving a very low frequency and producing what is known as "creaky voice."not-comparablerelational
laryngeal
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An anatomical part (such as a nerve or artery) that supplies or is associated with the larynx.
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A sound uttered by using the larynx.
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In Proto-Indo-European, one of the typically three reconstructed consonants usually marked as ⟨h₁⟩, ⟨h₂⟩ and ⟨h₃⟩.
- The vowel-coloring effects of the IH laryngeals cannot be considered apart from the vowel-reducing effect of the IH stress accent[…]
- […]it is not only different from Buck's in the linguistics (laryngeals have seen to that); it is very different in scope and aim.