Plosives

Like in colloquial BrE, T-glottalization and T-deletion have some currency in GhE. Syllable-final /t/ can be replaced by a fully or only weakly realized glottal stop (­ ?or ^?­ ) or it may be dropped altogether in word-final position. The following examples illustrate instances of T-glottalization and T-deletion:

Glottalization and deletion sometimes also affect /d/, as in should  [ʃu^?], but this is possibly due to the fact that word-final obstruents are frequently devoiced in GhE, so that /-d/ becomes [-t] and is then glottalized.

In the Fante dialect of Akan, /t/ has two allophones: [t] before back vowels and affricated [ts] before front vowels. Speakers of the dialect sometimes transfer this allophony to English and, for example, pronounce the name Martin [matsin].

RP word-initial /kw-/ is reduced to [k] in a number of words, like quota, quote, quarter. However, other words, like quality, remain largely unaffected by this, so it seems that we are dealing with a lexicalized rather than productive phenomenon here.