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Yes. To give a modern example, French often has a sequence or diphthong (depending on how you analyse it) [ɥi] (which is equivalent to [y̯i]), as in the word nuit /nɥi/ "night." This goes from a front …

The pronunciation of "baked" is actually a special case in English. English phonotactics do not allow /t/ and /d/ to contrast at the end of a word when there is a preceding voiceless obstruent (a sou …

On an empirical level, phonemic voicing of word-final obstruent consonants appears to exist in some languages (in Sanskrit and in varieties of Polish spoken in some regions such as Poznań-Kraków; for …

I haven't done a survey of languages or anything, so this isn't rigorous, just a few examples of epenthetic consonants that I have commonly seen in languages I am familar with. glottal stop. This oc …

"Is it actually impossible for humans to pronounce a plosive at the end of a word?" No, not at all. In French, word final plosives often have audible release (I just say "often" because I only have an …

Latin "b" apparently developed a pronunciation variant [β] (a voiced bilabial fricative or approximant) at some point that was used between vowels. Presumably there was a period when the shift from [b …

My understanding is that in German, the "lenis-fortis" distinction is realized differently in different dialects. For example, Standard German makes use of aspiration to distinguish syllable-initial / …

PIE isn't particularly relevant, because logic is a borrowed word, not a word that has been transmitted to English by inheritance from PIE. The Oxford English Dictionary's earliest citation for the no …

Note: I don't know too much about phonetics, so this answer is mainly about phonology. …

(Haven't you already asked this question on German SE: Pronunciation of consonants at a word-border? Please explain why you are re-asking it here.) No, you don't get [dz]. The most commonly described …

They aren't just different in length. In fact, depending on the context, an occurrence of the phoneme /i(ː)/ might be phonetically shorter than an occurrence of the phoneme /ɪ/. Broadly speaking, Eng …

I don't know enough phonetics to give the details, but there seem to be at least some pronunciations of a voiceless sibilant coronal fricative that are phonetically similar to [j]. …

Because of the way different sounds developed in English and in languages that English got words from, the sequence "ooch" tends not to regularly arise in words with the most common kinds of origins. …

In the first edition of his Outline of English Phonetics in 1918 Jones himself remarked that ''the custom of regarding certain vowels as long and certain others as short is, to say the least of it, unsatisfactory … It is much to be desired that all writers on English phonetics should come to an agreement to adopt a system of transcription for English independent of length marks''. …

The layout of an IPA chart is partly arbitrary, by which I mean that there are patterns to it, but those patterns aren't necessary the only patterns that would have been reasonable. They just are what …