2022年2月27日 · As Draconis says, the three phonations described in the question (aspirated, voiceless unaspirated aka tenuis, & voiced) are distinguished primarily by voice onset time (VOT), i.e. when does voicing start relative to the point of maximum restriction of the vocal tract, with voicing continuing through the point of maximum restriction in voiced consonants, voicing only …

Voiceless aspirated stops. Here are three voiceless aspirated stops (what we're used to seeing in English as /p t k/ when they occur as simple onsets at the beginning of stressed syllables): Notice in all these examples, there is considerable delay after the red line to the blue area. Corresponding sound samples: [p] aspirated [t] aspirated [k ...

2013年11月2日 · A vowel symbol with a circle below represents a voiceless (whispered) vowel. Any English speaker can prove this to themself easily: whisper eat, it, ate, ett, at, ott, holding the vowel long, to hear its voiceless sound then whisper each vowel, but start voicing the vowel and continue with the word.

2024年2月11日 · voice onset time, the time between the release of the stop and the start of voicing, where I understand voicing as the vibration of vocal cords. And unaspirated sounds have close-to-zero VOT and aspirated sounds greater VOT. From the comments in the linked question, voiced/voiceless distinctions are done on the negative side of VOT.

2023年9月24日 · Voice onset time is a convenient measurement that can be used to compare aspirated, tenuis, and voiced stops to each other, since across different languages (or across different contexts within a language) the duration of aspiration or voicing is not always the same.

2019年2月14日 · There is a body of research suggesting that the contextual neutralization of voiced and voiceless obstruents in some of these languages may be "incomplete" at the phonetic level: even though the sounds are close enough that a listener cannot reliably distinguish voiced phonemes from unvoiced ones, apparently speakers may produce slight ...

2024年10月20日 · They refer to the force of articulation. In some languages, including English, /p/, /t/ and /k/ are fortis, voiceless and (usually) aspirated, while /b/ , /d/ and /g/ are lenis, voiced and unaspirated. In other languages, like Frech, the former series is fortis, voiceless and unaspirated, while the latter are lenis, voiced and unaspirated.

Instead the term voice as a technical term refers to vibration of the vocal folds, and voicing can refer to either the existence of vocal fold vibration or the typology of different types of voice, such as voicelessness, modal voice, creaky voice (think "vocal fry"), etc. Phoneticians, and linguists more generally, understand voice as that ...

2016年8月26日 · With voiced/voiceless consonants, it is typically tense/lax category, where voiceless tend to be more tense, in English actually to the point of aspiration (in Germanic languages, this is so important that actually phonologists typically do not even use the voiced/voiceless classification but actually go for the tense/lax or aspirated/non ...

2022年8月22日 · So is it the case that for voiceless plosives, unaspirating them is the same as voicing them; for voiced plosives, aspirating them is the same as devoicing them, e.g., the ending of ''periodt.'' Ok maybe the case for voiced plosives is kind of a stretch. But would the equivanlence between voicing and unaspiration stand for the voiceless stops?