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Is the consonant [b] always voiced across languages? What about [p]?
Is the consonant [b] always voiced across languages?
What about [p] being voiceless?
Similarly, is [k] always voiceless across languages?
Basically, I am taking what I know in English and wondering ...
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Diachronic devoicing of initial lenis plosives in English
I get the impression that in the "classical Received Pronunciation" of English during phonetician Jones's era, the lenis plosives /b/, /d/, /g/ (and probably the affricate /dʒ/ as well) in initial ...
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Are there languages with contrasting unvoiced aspirated, unaspirated, and ejective stops?
In English there are just two series of stops, voiced (b, d, g) and unvoiced (p, t, k). The latter are generally aspirated (though it depends on phonological context).
In many common languages of ...
