word pies ('dog') is analyzed not as but as , with a soft . These consonants are then also analyzed as soft when they precede the vowel (as in pić 'to drink'). Unlike their equivalents in Russian, these consonants cannot retain their softness in the syllable coda (when not followed by a vowel). For example, the word for "carp" has the inflected forms karpia, karpie etc., with soft (or , depending on the analysis), but the nominative singular is karp, with a hard . Similar considerations lead to two competing analysis of palatalized velars. In , all three palatalized velars are given phonological status on the grounds of their distribution and minimal contrasts between , , and , , e.g. giełda ('stock market'), magiel ('laundry press ') but giętki ('flexible'), higiena ('hygiene'). Phonemes , and do not occur before where they are separated by a distinct e.g. kiosk ('kiosk'), filologia ('philology'), Hiob ('Job'). A system with and but without is given by , , and . This analysis is based on an assumption that there is actually no but only as chie, hie occur only in loanwords. However, a decomposed palatalization of kie, gie i.e. , in all contexts is a predominant pronunciation in contemporary Polish. Based on that, a system without palatalized velars is given by , and . In such a system palatalized velars are analyzed as , and before and , and before other vowels. This is the main analysis presented above. The consonants t, d, r (and some others) can also be regarded as having hard and soft forms according to the above approach, although the soft forms occur only in loanwords such as tir ('large lorry'; see TIR). If the distinction is made for all relevant consonants, then y and i can be regarded as allophones of a single phoneme, with y following hard consonants and i following soft ones (and in initial position). Glottal stop In more contemporary Polish, a phonetic glottal stop may appear as the onset of a vowel-initial word (e.g. Ala ). It may also appear following word-final vowels to connote particular affects; for example, nie ('no') is normally pronounced , but may instead be pronounced or in a prolonged interrupted . This intervocalic glottal stop may also break up a vowel hiatus, even when one appears morpheme-internally, as in poeta ('poet') or Ukraina ('Ukraine') . A relatively new phenomenon in