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In phonetics, aspiration is the strong burst of breath that accompanies either the release or, in the case of preaspiration, the closure of some obstruents.In English, aspirated consonants are allophones in complementary distribution with their unaspirated counterparts, but in some other languages, notably most South Asian languages and East Asian languages, the difference is contrastive.
Contrasts with aspirated form. See Wenzhounese phonology: Yi: ꀠ / ba [pa˧] 'exchange' Contrasts aspirated and unaspirated forms. Yue Chinese: Cantonese: 豬頭丙 / zyu¹ tau⁴ bing² [t͡ʃyː˥ tʰɐu̯˨˩ pɪŋ˧˥] 'blockhead' Contrasts with aspirated form. See Cantonese phonology: Taishanese: 白 [pak̚˧˩] 'white' Contrasts with ...
In linguistics, a tenuis consonant (/ ˈ t ɛ n. j uː ɪ s / or / ˈ t ɛ n uː ɪ s /) [2] is an obstruent that is voiceless, unaspirated and unglottalized. In other words, it has the "plain" phonation of [p, t, ts, tʃ, k] with a voice onset time close to zero (a zero-VOT consonant), as Spanish p, t, ch, k or English p, t, k after s ( s p y ...
Initial voiceless plosives, like the p in pie, are aspirated, with a palpable puff of air upon release, whereas a plosive after an s, as in spy, is tenuis (unaspirated). When spoken near a candle flame, the flame will flicker more after the words par, tar, and car are articulated, compared with spar, star, and scar.
Contrasts aspirated and unaspirated versions. The unaspirated is represented by /च/. The aspirated sound is represented by /छ/. See Nepali phonology: Portuguese: European [45] parte sem vida [ˈpaɾt͡sẽj ˈviðɐ] 'lifeless part' Allophone of /t/ before /i, ĩ/, or assimilation due to the deletion of /i ~ ɨ ~ e/. Increasingly used in ...
Since the consonant is also oral, with no nasal outlet, the airflow is blocked entirely, and the consonant is a plosive. Its place of articulation is velar, which means it is articulated with the back of the tongue (the dorsum) at the soft palate. Its phonation is voiceless, which means it is produced without vibrations of the vocal cords. In ...
Contrasts aspirated and unaspirated forms Portuguese [42] Some dialects: troço [ˈtɾɔsu] 'thing' (pejorative) Allophone before alveolar /ɾ/. In other dialects /ɾ/ takes a denti-alveolar allophone instead. See Portuguese phonology: Tagalog: matamis [mɐtɐˈmis] 'sweet' See Tagalog phonology: Thai: ตา /ta [taː˧] 'eye' Contrasts with ...
Word-initially, the contrast has more to do with aspiration; /t/ is aspirated and /d/ is an unaspirated voiceless stop. In the syllable coda, however, /t/ is instead pronounced with glottalization , unrelease, and a shorter vowel while /d/ remains voiceless.