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Dec 27, 2018 at 13:25 answer added Ardashir timeline score: -1
Aug 2, 2015 at 19:25 comment added Alain Pannetier Sapolsky of Stanford has a nice anecdote showing how important this distinction can be.
Dec 29, 2013 at 17:05 answer added Joe Pineda timeline score: 1
May 25, 2013 at 1:53 comment added Anixx The speakers by the link indeed do not correctly pronounce "d". They pronounce it voiceless. The p/b and k/g pairs on the other hand, are OK and easily distinguishable.
Apr 21, 2012 at 7:50 history edited hippietrail
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Oct 8, 2011 at 19:00 vote accept Alan C
Sep 24, 2011 at 2:36 history tweeted twitter.com/#!/StackLinguist/status/117427179796709376
Sep 14, 2011 at 23:41 answer added roflatreiko timeline score: 8
Sep 14, 2011 at 3:17 comment added Paul Dexter See voice onset time.
Sep 14, 2011 at 1:24 comment added Steven @SHiNKiROU: this may be because the main acoustic difference between the voiced and voiceless stops are in a very concentrated part of the acoustic spectrum, and if one of your playback devices has difficulty transmitting that portion, you may lose the distinction.
Sep 14, 2011 at 1:15 comment added Ming-Tang I found I distinguish voicing differently with headphones and without headphones, with the same sound sample
Sep 14, 2011 at 0:23 answer added Steven timeline score: 31
Sep 14, 2011 at 0:08 answer added Bozho timeline score: 3
Sep 13, 2011 at 23:22 answer added Bill Sullivan timeline score: 0
Sep 13, 2011 at 22:08 history edited hippietrail
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Sep 13, 2011 at 21:44 answer added Marc Schulder timeline score: 8
Sep 13, 2011 at 21:25 history asked Alan C CC BY-SA 3.0