Despite the social perception that Vermont’s rural dialect is dying, /t/ glottalization is a robust feature, especially among adolescent and younger speakers (Roberts 2006). The current study continues the investigation of Vermont glottalization with particular emphasis on a single variant: aspiration following glottal stop replacement. 11,736 tokens were collected from the informal interviews of 30 speakers. A mixed-effects binomial logistic regression model using the lme4 package (Bates et al. 2015) was built with combined glottal replacement variants as the response variable and glottal reinforcement as the alternative variable, fixed effects of preceding (p<0.001) and following segment (p<0.001), and random effects of speaker and token. The model supports Roberts’ 2006 finding of Vermont’s unique option for glottal replacement in an intervocalic, word-final position. Proportions revealed the pre-adolescent age group with the highest proportion of aspirated glottal stop occurrence, which goes against the expected age group for language innovation (adolescents). Thus, the paper explores possible lenition and social accounts for the appearance of this variant. Hyperarticulation due to children’s phonetic variability may largely account for the aspiration, though this hyperarticulation was not found to operate linearly across age. Therefore, an argument for the added motivation of socio-indexical acquisition and production is supported by the stigmatized status of glottal stop replacement in Vermont. That is, the differing rates of aspiration between age groups suggests an understanding of the variant to be operating uniquely across age, which supports a “mature use” (Eckert 1998:157) perspective of child language. This study contributes to work on phonetic variability in children’s speech and the acquisition of sociolinguistic information, especially of stigmatized variants.