Sentence examples for In a voiceless from inspiring English sources

Thus both the p in pin and that in spin are voiceless bilabial stops, but they differ in that the glottis remains in a voiceless position for a short time after the release of the bilabial stop in pin, whereas in spin the voicing starts as soon as the lips come apart.

Vowel, in human speech, sound in which the flow of air from the lungs passes through the mouth, which functions as a resonance chamber, with minimal obstruction and without audible friction; e.g., the i in "fit," and the a in "pack". Although usually produced with vibrating vocal cords, vowels may be pronounced without such vibration, resulting in a voiceless, or whispered, sound.

Plácido Domingo would be no slouch, either, if while conducting in the pit he had to fill in for a voiceless tenor onstage.

In addition, /sˠ/ and /ʃ/ may be followed by a voiceless stop, as in /ˈsˠpˠaɾˠaːn̪ˠ/ "purse" and /ʃceːl̪ˠ/ "story".

Nevertheless, some sensations of pitch accompany the variations in air pressure caused by the turbulent airflow that occurs during a voiceless fricative, or in the release phase of a voiceless stop.

I guess I'll have to make some language decisions myself.—* The "ch" in Scheveningen is, in linguistics speak, a voiceless uvular fricative.

with a voiceless initial, and in others (Muya, Qiang) with a voiced initial.

A voiced consonant at the end of a word may become voiceless when the next word begins with a voiceless consonant, as in [l̪ˠuːpˠ ʃeː] "he bent", where the b sound of /l̪ˠuːbˠ/ "bent" has become a p sound before the voiceless s of.

It's pronounced somewhere between the throaty Parisian French "r" (a voiced uvular fricative) and the "ch" in Scottish English loch (a voiceless velar fricative).

But Washington State's highest court, coincidentally, also weighed in last month on honking, saying that intent was crucial in deciding whether it was a voiceless commentary, and thus protected, or an annoying intrusion worthy of an officer's citation book.

The letter ḥ was originally a voiceless spirant; in modern Sanskrit pronunciation it is a voiced h followed by an echo of the last preceding vocalic segment; for example, what is spelled as -āḥ, -iḥ, -eḥ, -oḥ, -aiḥ, -auḥ is pronounced as, [iɦ], [eɦe], [oɦo], [əiɦi], [əuɦu].