Hiatus in linguistics is the separate pronunciation of two adjacent vowels, sometimes with an intervening glottal stop. In poetic metrics, hiatus can also refer to the failure of two vowels straddling a word boundary to coalesce, for example by elision of the first vowel. Broadly conceived, linguistics is the study of human language, and a linguist is someone who engages in this study. ... Note: This page contains phonetic information presented in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) using Unicode. ... The glottal stop or voiceless glottal plosive is a type of consonantal sound, used in many spoken languages. ... Meter (or metre) is the rhythm or regular sound-pattern of poetry. ... In music, see elision (music). ...

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