Sentence examples for unvoiced from inspiring English sources

One of the chief things is glide deletion in the [ai] sound before unvoiced consonants.

In Spain, at least some of the demonstrators seem to have understood that this system is sustained partly by the left and the trade unions; not so in Italy, where liberal economic ideas go almost unvoiced outside business schools.

The aid workers' unvoiced fear is that these sites will become internment camps.

That is a feature called "voicing" ("p" is unvoiced).

In the Latin alphabet it came to represent the unvoiced velar stop (indicated in English by k as well as c) and was for some time, it appears, used for both the voiced and unvoiced sounds.

According to the law, the ancient unvoiced p, t, k became the English unvoiced f, th, h and the Old High German f, d, h, producing such correlations as that between the initial consonants of Greek pod-, English fod, and Old High German fuo.

The law further stated that the ancient voiced b, d, g became the English unvoiced p, t, k and the Old High German spirant stops f, ts, kh; hence, the correlation between Latin duo, English "two," and modern German zwei (pronounced "tsvai").

The voiced stops and fricatives b, d, v, z, and g are unvoiced to p, t, f, s, and ch, respectively, as final letters of a word.

All of the stopped consonants are unvoiced, and the original voiceless stops have become strongly aspirated; for example, the equivalent of Irish bog "soft" is [pok], p being the voiceless counterpart of b, and that of cat "cat" is [khaht], the superscript h after k indicating the aspirated quality.

The consonantal structure is characterized by relative richness in stops (sounds produced by momentary complete closure at some point in the vocal tract)—unvoiced p, t, k, aspirated ph, th, ch, voiced b, d, g and by few spirants, only s and h (h restricted to initial position before a vowel).

Karcevskij, he announced his hypothesis that phonemes, the smallest units of speech sounds that distinguish one word from another, are complexes of binary features, such as voiced/unvoiced and aspirated/unaspirated.