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Pronunciation of P in Latin, versus Ph in Greek
I'm going to take a slightly different approach than Jk's answer, which does a good job coming at this from a Greco-Roman perspective. Instead, I'm going to focus on the Punic situation because it's a ...
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Pronunciation of P in Latin, versus Ph in Greek
At some time in the history of the Greek languages, the letters Phi, Theta, and Chi represented aspirated consonants /ph/, /th/ and /kh/. The Romans felt that they were different enough from their ...
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What are partially voiced stops (as in Danish)?
Danish has no voiced plosives but two series of voiceless plosives, aspirated and unaspirated. These are typically transcribed with <p, t, k; b, d, ɡ> rather than the more phonetically ...
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Affrication-like sound in palatal plosive [c]
Having acoustically inspected these tokens as well as online tokens from Esling and Ladefoged, I notice that all performers have a longer voice onset time (around 20 msc, varying according to ...
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Are nasals stop consonants?
It's all about the manner of articulation.
A stop consonant is by definition a sound produced by the complete obstruction of airflow though the mouth, at least for a short time. There are two kinds, ...
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Languages with a three-way distinction between voiced, aspirated, and unaspirated stops
Just to give you some more data, by analyzing the UPSID, I have come up with the following list of languages that specifically have this three way contrast in stops, and no other phonation ...
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Are nasals stop consonants?
The answer can be either yes or no—it comes down to your definition.
Some people define "stop consonants" to be consonants where the airflow is completely stopped (as in, the opposite of continuant ...
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Lengthened voiced stops and the airstream through the nose
It is possible that you do lower the velum when you do this, and velum lowering is one of the methods that is used to alleviate the pressure buildup of voiced stops, but it is also possible that your ...
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Dental plosive with no apical obstruction
I have not seen all papers in phonology, but I don't think that a bidental plosive or a bidental stop (that would be technical terms for that sound) was ever described in literature. A bidental ...
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Lengthened voiced stops and the airstream through the nose
If you're producing nasals then you must be allowing your velum to drop. No fair. You have to find some way to enlarge the closed air cavity above your larynx. There are several ways to do this. ...
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Are there any tonal languages with syllable-final consonants that are not unreleased, or even aspirated?
Outside the more ‘traditional’ areas of tonal languages, Swedish and Norwegian both have tones (albeit employed to a lesser degree than stereotypically tonal languages, being only distinguished in ...
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Are there any tonal languages with syllable-final consonants that are not unreleased, or even aspirated?
Punjabi is normally analysed as being tonal. They're rare, but syllable-final released stops may be found in words like /hʊkuːmət/ which I'm given to understand means "the secondmost" or ...
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Are there languages with contrasting unvoiced aspirated, unaspirated, and ejective stops?
This is quite common. I would argue that that Georgian pattern is almost the same thing as the aspirated-unvoiced-ejective pattern. This variant where the plain stop is voiced occurs frequently in ...
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Are nasals stop consonants?
This being an obligatory answer to a question, we would have to know your instructor's ideology and instructional point – i.e. in the present instance, we can only offer reasonable interpretations of ...
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Are there any tonal languages with syllable-final consonants that are not unreleased, or even aspirated?
Tibetan (at least most dialects) is normally considered tonal, and has at least a labial stop that's usually released in the syllable-final position. Depending on dialect and how the speaker is trying ...
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Differences between /ᵐb/ (prenasalization) and /mb/
There is no phonetic difference, but there is also no phonetic unity supposed ᵐb / mb are pronounced in many different ways across languages. On occasion, there is an audible contrast between two such ...
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Aspiration of voiced consonants
"Aspiration" is used in multiple ways, phonetically and phonologically, which can lead to some confusion, and Wiki reflects that confusion. Given that you're appealing to physical production and not ...
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How to identify the English \t\ consonant in sound recordings?
You could use Acoustical characteristics of selected English consonants, by Ilse Lehiste, to determine what the formant transition patterns are, or the voicing patterns, that would be of interest to ...
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