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utter with tense vocal chords

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The initial <r> is a devoiced short trill [r], with voicing commencing with the ensuing vowel, as in rhin.
In the production of reduced vowels, I studied the following types of realizations: (1) modal vowel; (2) voiceless vowel (partially or completely devoiced); (3) consonantal palatalization or labialization, or both, without a vowel; (4) complete vowel loss without any traces left.
In the first stage of the derivation affixes are added and elided and devoiced at the word boundary.
The result is that the human scribes responsible for composing pentateuchal laws are effectively devoiced (28).
So as Frost tantalizingly posits voice as the dead-center and "absence of play," he swerves toward that voice's distribution into devoiced, printed poem.
The experiment further shows that voiced geminates are partially devoiced in Pahari.
lsi means 'son,' meaning in this context, Reithofer suggests, disciple of Lungun and Langan (2006:194), while Ainisi (ibid.) would mean either 'son of Ain' or 'disciple of Ain."' Since Engan words end on a (devoiced) vowel rather a consonant, Ain is obviously wrong (as is Wambilip).
The author further states that, in Andean Spanish, for example, vowel reduction in prepausal syllables is particularly severe, with 87% of vowels being either completely devoiced or apparently deleted.
At birth, newborns are devoiced of efficient structural barriers, of a protective endogenous microbial flora and of a mature immune system.
Of these latter four languages, only Kashtawari shows unambiguous evidence of pitch contours, with a schleifton occurring in words of which a historical voiced aspirated initial consonant has become devoiced and deaspirated (Kishtawari poiy 'brother'; cf.
For example, in Russian, unlike in English, final voiced consonants are devoiced. So SLPs should know that testing Russian voiced consonants in final position is not appropriate.
Thus, whereas educated women would be more likely to use veste (jacket) men would say fista where the sound /v/is devoiced and becomes/f/, and the Moroccan feminine gender morpheme /a/ is added to the word.
Modisane the author also confers a face on the protagonist Bloke, deindividualized and devoiced by his name itself.
In German, voiced plosives are typically devoiced in coda position--[g][right arrow] [k], [d][right arrow] [t], [p][right arrow] [b].