TY - JOUR N2 - This paper discusses the defi nitions of the glottal stop encountered in the literature. The term glottal stop appears in many works in the field of linguistics (or, more precisely, phonetics and phonology), phoniatrics, voice emission and speech therapy. However, this term may be understood in various ways. Generally speaking, in speech therapy, a glottal stop is defined, for example, as: 1. a form of phonation; 2. a type of pseudo articulation. In phonetics the term is referred to as: 1. a form of voicing initiation; 2. a type of articulation; 3. both the type of articulation and the type of phonation. In the light of the definitions quoted in this work, the answer to the question posed in the title of this paper is neither simple nor clear L1 - http://www.journals.pan.pl/Content/108725/PDF/R.Slawist.%2067-2018%203-M.Osowicka.pdf L2 - http://www.journals.pan.pl/Content/108725 PY - 2018 IS - No LXVII EP - 53 DO - 10.24425/rslaw.2018.124590 KW - glottal stop KW - glottalization KW - articulation KW - phonation KW - Polish phonetics A1 - Osowicka-Kondratowicz, Magdalena PB - Komitet Słowianoznawstwa PAN DA - 2018.11.30 T1 - Glottal stop – a type of phonation or articulation? SP - 39 UR - http://www.journals.pan.pl/dlibra/publication/edition/108725 T2 - Rocznik Slawistyczny ER -