Questions tagged [stops]
Consonants produced by completely obstructing oral airflow.
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Glottal or Stop /v/?
I am an amateur in linguistics. I was listening to three different British RP pronunciations of the word "massive".
https://www.google.com/search?q=pronounce+massive (Make sure to select ...
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Does aspiration propagate to the following vowel?
My native language is Korean, which is notorious for its three-way distinction (plain vs. tense vs. aspirated) of (non-nasal) stops. As such, I tried to analyze my own pronunciation.
Then I found that ...
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Are there any tonal languages with syllable-final consonants that are not unreleased, or even aspirated?
All the tonal languages I have some familiarity with, Mandarin, Thai, Lao, Vietnamese, and Cantonese either lack stop consonants in syllable-final position, or allow only "unreleased" stop ...
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Pronunciation of P in Latin, versus Ph in Greek
In Latin, it seems some sounds that are pronounced like an "F" in Greek, are pronounced like a "P", why is this?
For example, we have the Greek word Phoenicians, and this word ...
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Has a sound change ever happened that voiced only stops in between vowels and not fricatives?
Has this ever happened? Can it happen? I'm a novice in linguistics and I'm trying to study sound changes.
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Differences between /ᵐb/ (prenasalization) and /mb/
What's the difference between prenasalized voced plosive /ᵐb/ and just the sound /mb/, if any? I've watched this video where /ᵐbʷ/ is pronounced, and I'd pronounce /mbʷ/ in the same way.
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Dental plosive with no apical obstruction
Can I have a paper which describes dental plosives by the two rows of teeth as opposed to contacting the dental area with the tongue ?? I mean the air needs obstructed and the posterior most place of ...
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What are partially voiced stops (as in Danish)?
In researching the Danish language, I've read about a series of stops [b̥ d̥ ɡ̊]. What are those? Apparently they are different from the commonplace voiced stops [b d ɡ] and the voiceless stops [p t k]...
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Affrication-like sound in palatal plosive [c]
When I compare the plosive sounds in an IPA table with recordings (like this or this), the sound of [c] stands out to me as noisier and more turbulent than the rest of the series [p, t, ʈ, k, q, ʔ]. ...
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Aspiration of voiced consonants
I have read in the wikipedia about aspiration that "voiced consonants are seldom actually aspirated", unlike their unvoiced counterparts. It does not seem so to me. Assuming that aspiration is the ...
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Lengthened voiced stops and the airstream through the nose
I am going through Catford's Practical Introduction to Phonetics, experiments 31-32. After explaining how to produce voiced stops [b], [d], [g] by superimposing a closure upon the voiced air-stream, ...
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Do Old Indian words with voiceless aspirated stops have cognates in other branches of Indogermanic?
Inspired by this answer I have this question: Do Old Indic (Vedic, Sankrit) words beginning with a voiceless aspirated stop (like ph, th, or kh) have cognates in other branches of Indogermanic? What ...
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How to analyse stops place of articulation?
Works which focus on differences in place of articulation of stops (like Sundara 2005, 2006) usually use spectral measurements (COG, skewness, SD, kurtosis) and relative burst intensity. It is not ...
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How to identify the English \t\ consonant in sound recordings?
I am trying to recognize the consonants in a word i.e. if the word spoken is tap, using different tools like Praat or MATLAB etc. I want to implement a system to ensure that the first letter spoken ...
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How to transcribe a labial+glottal stop released as a bilabial nasal
I think English something is sometimes pronounced thus:
[s]
some vowel, arguendo [ə]
a stop. This stop is pronounced by simultaneously closing the lips and glottis. So perhaps it'd be called a labio-...
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What is the difference between velar and ejective stops?
What is the difference between the velar stop [kʰ] and the ejective [k̛ ]? And how are they pronounced?
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Identifying place of articulation of stops in Praat
I've played around in Praat a bit trying to identify unknown syllables in Mandarin by just looking at the spectrograms. Since there is a very limited number of syllables in Mandarin (slightly over 400 ...
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Languages with a three-way distinction between voiced, aspirated, and unaspirated stops
I thought I had asked this question here previously but it turns out that I asked about ejectives rather than aspirated stops.
So this time I would like to ask whether there are languages that have a ...
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Are voiced stops in English articulated in the same manner as their nasal counterparts before the stop release?
I have a question regarding the initial part of stop consonants in English.
Let's take /b/, the voiced bilabial stop consonant, as an example. When I produce this consonant, prior to the stop release,...
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Are nasals stop consonants?
Nasals:
I must answer the question but I am not sure how to understand it...
The question is: why nasals both can and cannot be treated as stop consonants?
I thought that nasals cannot be stop ...
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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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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 ...
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What is the difference between voiced and voiceless stop consonants?
As a native speaker of American English, when I was listening to the difference sounds in this IPA chart, I was really surprised when I realized that I could not differentiate between p/b, t/d, and k/...
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Why does stop VOT duration vary depending on place of articulation?
From the (albeit citation needed) section of the Wikipedia article on aspiration:
Spanish /p t k/, for example, have voice onset times (VOTs) of about 5, 10, and 30 milliseconds, whereas English /p ...
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