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SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Linguistics: phonology & phonetics
accommodation
alliterative
alveolar
apheresis
aphesis
assonance
diphthong
homonym
intrusive
labial
labialize
labiodental
lateral
postconsonantal
retroflex
retroflexion
rhotic
rhyme
unpronounceable
unrepeatable

Examples of devoice

devoice
The sonorant of the cluster is devoiced, which yields a sonority profile sufficient to avoid violation of this constraint.
However, his data shows all voiced consonants to be devoiced in pause, irrespective of the weight of the preceding vowel (1983: 39f).
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.
What happens, in fact, is that the major par t of the approximant itself is devoiced.
Overall, the rate of licit phoneme-to-phoneme mismatching, including devoicing cases, is very low.
This blurs a mora demarcation, so devoicing is dispreferred.
These results show that duration is only marginally affected by devoicing, and that devoiced items are not equal to voiceless items.
At some point, the voiced onset stop /g/ was devoiced.
The model presented here has no way of capturing epenthesis in the infinitive and devoicing or deletion in the imperative.
If there is a suffix which begins with a vowel, then no devoicing takes place.
Since these two requirements are at odds, voiced fricatives with strong frication tend to be devoiced.
Finally, any of the rhotic variants can be devoiced, particularly word-finally.
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