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  2. Voice onset time - Wikipedia

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    The concept of voice onset time can be traced back as far as the 19th century, when Adjarian (1899: 119) [1] studied the Armenian stops, and characterized them by "the relation that exists between two moments: the one when the consonant bursts when the air is released out of the mouth, or explosion, and the one when the larynx starts vibrating".

  3. Pronunciation of English th - Wikipedia

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    Compound words in which the first element ends or the second element begins with th frequently have /θ/, as these elements would in isolation: bathroom, Southampton; anything, everything, nothing, something. The only other native words with medial /θ/ would seem to be brothel (usually) and Ethel. Most loan words with a medial th have /θ/.

  4. Flapping - Wikipedia

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    Flapping or tapping, also known as alveolar flapping, intervocalic flapping, or t-voicing, is a phonological process involving a voiced alveolar tap or flap; it is found in many varieties of English, especially North American, Cardiff, Ulster, Australian and New Zealand English, where the voiceless alveolar stop consonant phoneme /t/ is pronounced as a voiced alveolar flap [ɾ], a sound ...

  5. Phonation - Wikipedia

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    In speech, voiceless phones are associated with vocal folds that are elongated, highly tensed, and placed laterally (abducted) when compared to vocal folds during phonation. [ 6 ] Fundamental frequency, the main acoustic cue for the percept pitch , can be varied through a variety of means.

  6. Vocology - Wikipedia

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    It is not yet its own professional degree, thus it only assists the voice medicine team. Usually a person practicing vocology is a voice coach with additional training in the voice medical arts, a prepared voice/singing teacher, or a speech pathologist with additional voice performance training—so they can better treat the professional voice user.

  7. Minimal pair - Wikipedia

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    These drills took the form of minimal pair word drills and minimal pair sentence drills. For example, if the focus of a lesson was on the distinction /ɪ/ versus /ɛ/, learners might be asked to signal which sound they heard as the teacher pronounced lists of words with these phonemes such as lid/led, tin/ten, or slipped/slept. Minimal pair ...

  8. Voiced velar fricative - Wikipedia

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    Usually it is uttered as guttural R at initial and medial position of a word. See Malay phonology: Terengganu: Negeri Sembilan [ɣamai̯] Pahang [ɣamɛ̃ː] Sarawak [ɣamɛː] Mandarin Chinese: Central Mandarin (Dongping dialect) 俺 /ngǎn [ɣän˥] 'I' Mi'kmaq: nisaqan [nisaɣan] 'weir' Allophone of /x/ between sonorants.

  9. Place of articulation - Wikipedia

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    Resonances in the vocal tract modify these waves according to the position and shape of the lips, jaw, tongue, soft palate, and other speech organs, creating formant regions and so different qualities of sonorant sound. Mouth radiates the sound waves into the environment.