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	Unaspirated T’s from the mouth of Babes : Notes from a Linguistic Mystic
		In the Unaspirated T, the voicing kicks in the moment the T is released, with no delay (or “Voice Onset Time”).
		In Korean, for instance, they have different letters for each T/D sound (aspirated, unaspirated, and voiced), as well as for K/G and P/B. Thus, the difference between an unaspirated T and a D could be the difference between two completely different words (like “Cake” and “Bake” in English).
		It seemed as though she did in fact contrast what I’m pretty sure is an unaspirated T with D (”say TaTa” versus “say DaDa”), and it seems like she really does see the sounds as different.
	linguisticmystic.com /2006/12/28/unaspirated-ts-from-the-mouth-of-babes (1215 words)

	Cahto Alphabet Chart
		Unaspirated stops and affricates (written "b", "d", "dj", "j", and "g") are not voiced like the English letters can be: in other words, the vocal cords do not vibrate through or immediately after the sound.
		To most English speakers these unaspirated voiceless stops sound like our voiced (or unaspirated, this is not a settled issue among linguists) stops ("b", "d", "g"), but in fact they are more similar to the unaspirated voiceless stops written "p", "t", "k" or "c" in Romance languages (including French, Italian, Portuguese and Spanish).
		The Cahto and California Athabaskan distinction between aspirated and unaspirated is the same as that in Chinese--see Mandarin Chinese Pronunciation: footnote 1.
	www.billabbie.com /calath/cahtoabc.html (1193 words)

	Voiced Plosives
		So, once you know the context, you should not have too much trouble distinguishing between the allophonically unaspirated voiceless plosives and the normally unaspirated voiced plosives, because voiceless plosives become unaspirated in predictable environments, environments in which the voiced plosives cannot occur.
		Unaspirated voiceless plosives and voiced plosives are in complementary distribution in these cases: one group does not invade the other's turf.
		It is still not impossible to tell unaspirated (but released) word-final plosives from word-final released voiced plosives, though, because voiced plosives are often released with a schwa.
	cslu.cse.ogi.edu /tutordemos/SpectrogramReading/cse551html/cse551/node37.html (822 words)

	Korean Alphabet
		An unaspirated ‘k’ at the beginning of a word, and a ‘g’ most of the time in the middle of words.
		An unaspirated ‘p’ at the beginning of words, and a ‘b’ in the middle of words.
		Unaspirated ‘ch’ at the beginning of words, ‘j’ inside words.
	www.linguanaut.com /korean_alphabet (626 words)

	Cahto Alphabet Chart (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Unaspirated stops and affricates (written "b", "d", "dj", "j", and "g") are not voiced like the English letters can be: in other words, the vocal cords do not vibrate through or immediately after the sound.
		To most English speakers these unaspirated voiceless stops sound like our voiced (or unaspirated, this is not a settled issue among linguists) stops ("b", "d", "g"), but in fact they are more similar to the unaspirated voiceless stops written "p", "t", "k" or "c" in Romance languages (including French, Italian, Portuguese and Spanish).
		The Cahto and California Athabaskan distinction between aspirated and unaspirated is the same as that in Chinese--see Mandarin Chinese Pronunciation: footnote 1.
	home.att.net /~wranders/cahtoabc.html (1192 words)

	Ejectives in Babine/Witsuwit'en Glottalized Consonants (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		In this language, there is a three way contrast between voiceless unaspirated, voiceless aspirated and glottalized stops.
		The difference between voiceless unaspirated and glottalized stops is difficult to hear.
		Speakers listened to minimal pairs along assorted dimensions: voiceless unaspirated vs. glottalized stops/affricates, voiceless unaspirated vs. aspirated stops, palatal vs. uvular, voiced vs.
	depts.washington.edu /~phonlab/project/ejectives.html (245 words)

	Shanghai Dialect Phonology (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		The fortis voiceless unaspirated plosives p, t, k in Shanghainese are equivalent to the French p (peu), t (temps) and k (kilo) or c (Cannes).
		The alveolar voiceless unaspirated affricate tz is similar to the Mandarin Hanyu Pinyin z (å zai4).
		Voiceless unaspirated affricate palatal c is very similar to the Mandarin Hanyu Pinyin j (å ji3).
	www.zanhe.com /consonant.html (1002 words)

	Language - MSN Encarta
		Phonetically, the aspirated k and unaspirated k are different sounds, but in English these different sounds never distinguish one word from another, and English speakers are usually unaware of the phonetic difference until it is pointed out to them.
		The Hindi language, on the other hand, uses this sound difference to distinguish words such as kal (time), which has an unaspirated k, and khal (skin), in which kh represents the aspirated k.
		Therefore, in Hindi the distinction between the aspirated and unaspirated k is both phonetic and phonological.
	encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761570647/Language.html (902 words)

	Phonemes
		From the point of view of a phonetician, a person who studies speech sounds apart from the way in which they are used, the 'p' of 'pill' is aspirated and the 'p' of 'spill' is unaspirated.
		Speakers of certain other languages, e.g., classical Greek and the languages of India, would instantly hear the difference because the difference between aspiration and non-aspiration serves to distinguish words in their native language, or as a linguist would say, aspiration is phonemic in those languages.
		In classical Greek aspirated [p] and unaspirated [p] are distinct phonemes, whereas in English the same two sounds are just allophones of the phoneme /p/.
	www.owlnet.rice.edu /~wies301/Phonemes.html (594 words)

	phone@Everything2.com
		In Korean there are three contrasting stops, strongly and weakly aspirated and wholly unaspirated.
		Aspiration is a property of the following vowel: the voicelessness of [p] continues into the early part of the vowel segment, before voicing switches on.
		Although I find it hard to be sure I'm getting the phonation right when I pronounce [spQt] with unaspirated /p/ and [sbQt] with devoiced /b/, I think I can tell that I actually use [p] normally.
	everything2.com /index.pl?node=phone (759 words)

	Language in India
		However, we encounter a vast skewing in favor of the unaspirated stops and against the aspirated stops in their frequency of usage in the word.
		The vast skewing in favor of unaspirated stops and against their aspirated counterparts may well be attributed to to the preference in terms of fewer versus more articulators.
		Though there was no preference for the unaspirated speech sounds over the aspirated counterparts in the makeup of the phonological units in the paradigm, we encounter a vast skewing in favor of the unaspirated speech sounds and against the aspirated speech sounds in their frequency of usage in the word.
	www.languageinindia.com /may2005/mewatifatihi2.html (3293 words)

	Cantonese and Pinyin Pronounciation Guide
		Of the nineteen initials in Cantonese, ch, p, t, ck, and kw are aspirated while b, d, g, gw, and j are unaspirated.
		Aspirated consonants are pronounced with a puff of air, as in the English p in pan and lip.
		In some cases, such as, in English, after s (span, spill), the same consonants lose the puff of air and are unaspirated.
	home.vtmuseum.org /terminology/pronounciation_guide.php (1653 words)

	Yin & Yang and the I Ching
		In the table superscript numbers are the tones, and brackets contain Pinyin writings (with superscript tones where HTML does not contain the appropriate diacritic).
		The Wu dialect of Shanghai is noteworthy because it retains the distinction between voiced and unvoiced, aspirated and unaspirated stops that existed in T'ang Chinese.
		The Chinese unaspirated t can be duplicated by pronouncing "stop" without the "s." Aspirations are indicated in the "pronunciation" column of the table with a superscript h.
	www.friesian.com /yinyang.htm (4939 words)

	Hints on Pronunciation
		If you try the match-flame with these words you will notice that the flame is not blown out as it was when you had these sounds at the beginning of a word.
		These sounds are called unaspirated p, t, and k, and in Thai they occur at the beginning of words.
		To distinguish these unaspirated sounds from the aspirated ones they are written without h in the Aids, thus: p, t, k.
	www.seasite.niu.edu /Thai/spokenthai/unit2/hints.htm (1112 words)

	Learn more about Phonology in the online encyclopedia. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		In English, word initial voiceless stops are aspirated, whereas non word-initial voiceless stops aren't aspirated (This can be seen by putting your fingers right in front of your lips and notice the difference in breathiness as you say 'pin' and 'spin').
		There is no English word 'pin' that starts with an unaspirated p, therefore in English, aspirated [p
		means aspirated) and unaspirated [p] are allophones of an underlying phoneme /p/.
	www.onlineencyclopedia.org /p/ph/phonology.html (1013 words)

	lecture 16
		The aspirated and unaspirated forms of these phonemes are the surface allophones.
		The fact that we have a minimal contrastive pair between aspirated and unaspirated voiceless stops in Thai tells us that these must be different underlying forms.
		In the first set of examples below, we see that the English phoneme /t/ is pronounced as [d] when it occurs between a pair of vowels, but not when it occurs in word-final position.
	www.ling.udel.edu /colin/courses/ling101/lecture16.html (1275 words)

	Robin Beck: Nam' or Namu?
		And the Japanese have an "unaspirated vowel" of sorts, which can be voiced or unvoiced.
		Either way, the 'u' is unaspirated; but it can be voiced or not.
		the second beat is an unaspirated mu, I make the "m" with the slightest of aspirations that is not quite the "u" in "must" or in "but." Thus, "nam-m'-myo-ho-ren-ge-kyo-_-nam-m'-myo-ho-ren-ge-kyo-_-nam-m'-myo-ho-ren-ge-kyo-_." One advantage of the pause of one beat is that it makes each daimoku separate and distinct.
	www.fraughtwithperil.com /blogs/rbeck/archives/000781.html (1905 words)

	Order of consonant acquisition (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Voiceless unaspirated stops do not require any laryngeal-oral coordination among gestures (may not involve any laryngeal gesture(s) at all).
		Coordination considerations suggest that they cannot be acquired before the coordination of laryngeal and oral gestures (voicing) is achieved.
		Voiceless unaspirated stops can be produced without laryngeal-oral coordination.
	sapir.ling.yale.edu /ling165/Order/Order.html (1200 words)

	Ancient Scripts: Cherokee
		Similarly, gw is really unaspirated [kw] like qu in squash.
		The one instance of the syllabic symbol ka is pronounced aspirated, phonetically [k
		d is an unaspirated [t], like t in stop, while t is aspirated, like t in to.
	www.ancientscripts.com /cherokee.html (302 words)

	Lao phrasebook - Wikitravel
		Lao distinguishes between aspirated ("with a puff of air") and unaspirated ("without a puff of air") consonants.
		Unaspirated consonants exist in English too, but never alone: compare the sound of 'p' in "pot" (aspirated) and "spot" (unaspirated).
		In romanized Lao, the distinction is usually represented by writing aspirated consonants with "h" and unaspirated ones without it.
	wikitravel.org /en/Lao (739 words)

	Mandarin, no voiced consonants?
		(French voiceless consonants except for tr, pr, cr clusters are usually unaspirated; Japanese non-initial syllables in a word are usually pronounced unaspirated for its voiceless consonants; English voiceless consonants are usually aspirated except after s- or o-, such as "stone" and "open", where it is then unaspirated)
		Ok, not that I am studying Shanghainese, but I would like to be able to hear the difference between the three categories, if someone knows how to make an audio recording and upload to this thread...
		Since the plosives in Shanghainese belong to a 3-way contrast systems whereas those in English belong to 2-way systems*, they are very likely to have different phonetic qualities.
	www.zlsu.com /topic/htm17/10581.htm (1487 words)

	A Short Guide to Chinese Phonetics
		Most of the consonants in pinyin sound essentially the same as they are in English, but unlike English, Mandarin has few voiced consonants.
		What sound like voiced consonants are usually unaspirated consonants (that is, there is no puff of breath after the initial sound of the letter).
		If this distinction escapes you, note that the p in the word "camping" does not have the puff of air after it that it does in the word "puff." These two instances correspond to pinyin b and p.
	www.isi.edu /~brian/chinese/guide.html (1125 words)

	LESSON 3-1
		As we noted in Lesson 2, in English voiceless stops are aspirated (followed by a puff of air) when they occur at the beginning of a word before a stressed vowel; otherwise, they are unaspirated.
		Given that, we’ll categorize the aspirated p and unaspirated p as variations of the same sound unit, and will call them allophones.
		Thus, when we add the phonetic environments where the aspirated p and its unaspirated counterpart occur, we get the whole distribution for the entire phoneme /p/.
	www.hamline.edu /personal/ferku/linguisticsfall2002/3phonemes.htm (1050 words)

	Behind the Name: Message: "Re: How do you pronounce the name Jyoti?"
		In north Indian languages there is a contrast between dental (think French te) t and alveolar T (as in English take), and between unaspirated t/T and aspirated th/Th.
		English (or any Western European language that I know) does not distinguish all these, and that is the root of the problem.
		Often English t is close to Sanskrit alveolar unaspirated T and th is close to Sanskrit dental aspirated th.
	wwwame.behindthename.com /bb_gen/arcview.php?id=49493 (206 words)

	Aspiration and Native Baltic Forms
		Considering the changes of glottalized stops to either unaspirated voiced stops or unaspirated voiceless stops, it appears that glottalization is basically incompatible not so much with voicing as it is with aspiration.
		This indicates that though the features voiced/voiceless and checked/unchecked (glottalized/unglottalized) are mutually exclusive and thus cannot be redundantly concomitant with one another, the features checked/unchecked (glottalized/unglottalized) and tense/lax (including aspirated/unaspirated7) are polar opposites.
		The other involves the, at best, very restricted attestation of unaspirated b vis-a-vis the heavy attestation of unaspirated g.
	www.lituanus.org /1988/88_2_01.htm (3761 words)

	Ancient Greek Pronunciation
		Iota may be long or short and is pronounced EE as in "see." The iota-subscript should be pronounced.
		Unaspirated P something like the P in "spin."
		Pronounced like a German ü as in "für." In some dialects it was more like the OO in "too," and this is the sound it has in the diphthongs
	www.cs.utk.edu /~mclennan/OM/BA/pronunciation.html (570 words)

	Greek Alphabet
		unaspirated ck as in nickle, but not aspirated k as in kite
		unaspirated p as in sap, but not aspirated as in pass
		unaspirated /t/ as in stop (but unlike top)
	greek-language.com /alphabet (828 words)

	BharatVani Hindi Teacher - Transliteration
		The first 25 can be placed in 5 groups of 5 consonants.
		Each group has: two primary (unaspirated), two secondary (aspirated) and one nasal sound consonant.
		As all English consonants are pronounced without aspiration, some Hindi teaching books put a (.) dot or other sign under a consonant to show that it has an aspirated sound.
	www.myhinditeacher.com /writing_l11.htm (881 words)

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