| 21. | Plosive and affricate phonemes have three-way contrast between fortis, lenis, and voiced consonants.
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| 22. | All consonants except / ?/ are unaspirated, and all stops and / x / are lenis.
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| 23. | Fortis ( long ? ) half-rounds a following vowel such as, whereas lenis does not.
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| 24. | The nature of the phonetic difference between the voiceless lenis consonants and the similarly voiceless fortis consonants is controversial.
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| 25. | In some communities, the lenis / fortis distinction has been replaced with a pure voiced / voiceless one.
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| 26. | This ranks him fourth among Greek triple jumpers, only behind Dimitrios Tsiamis, Konstadinos Zalaggitis and Stamatios Lenis.
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| 27. | Evans'Ojibwe writing system recognized short and long vowels, but did not distinguish between lenis and fortis consonants.
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| 28. | Fortis stops, however, sound more like voiceless stops in English, but are slightly longer than lenis stops.
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| 29. | Based on this, argues that the distinction is better captured with the notion of a fortis / lenis contrast.
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| 30. | Likewise, the underlying velar of the verb stem is a voiceless after the preceding voiceless and lenis when intervocalic.
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