The glottal stop can be added to final syllables ending in a vowel as a way of emphasising.
As vowels, they played a role in the law of open syllables, which states that every syllable must end in a vowel.
Changsha has 5 tones, which are neutralized in syllables ending in a stop.
He spelled his name Davida, since syllables always end in vowels in the Hawaiian language.
Words or syllables cannot end in a consonant (except n or m), so the Japanese put in an extra vowel.
Every syllable ends in a vowel.
However, words whose final syllable had a long vowel or ended with a consonant were unaffected and still had penultimate stress at this point.
It's got the weight of "significant," and with just two strong syllables ending with a juicy vowel, it comes off the tongue with ease.
(The Hawaiian language has no /s/ sound, and all syllables and words must end in a vowel.)
On the other hand, English has many closed syllables ending in a consonant, and consonant-consonant and consonant-voiceless diphones as well.