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Examples of voiceless

voiceless
I could not use the word though; its power caught in the back of my throat and held me, voiceless.
However, the first two processes may precede the last, leading to an epenthetic voiceless stop.
Rhyming partners need not be as obviously alike as voiced and voiceless pairs of consonants.
The same speaker may have realized this sometimes as voiced, sometimes as voiceless.
Moreover, experts agree that vowels before voiced segments are longer than before voiceless segments.
Two-thirds of their data is ignored because the fricatives and voiceless stops did not give significant results.
What is excluded from this typology is the logically possible but unattested case of a language with no voiceless obstruents.
Voicing of affricates was also free to vary such that voiced and\\or voiceless affricates were counted equivalently.
With respect to coda segments, children produced voiceless obstruents as codas before sonorants supporting generally the claim that obstruents emerge before sonorants in coda position.
However, whereas 19% of voiceless stops were produced correctly, only 2% of the voiced stops were produced correctly.
What does this voiceless song of silent opera ask of us?
Opera may even reveal silent film not to be voiceless at all.
Laterals and voiceless obstruents behave similarly, with relative frequencies of 16% and 15%, respectively; both of them show a neutral influence on 0ay0 centralization.
Table 10 gives the mean percentages of targetlike, devoiced, and wrongly voiced responses for the eight voiced and voiceless targets, collapsed across tasks and subjects.
Our last phonological argument comes from neutralisation, which produces voiceless aspirates in a wide range of languages, some of which are given in (7).
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