Tenseness is especially used to explain stop consonants of the Alemannic German dialects because they have two series of them that are identically voiceless and unaspirated.
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Traditional Chinese dialectology reckons syllables ending in a stop consonant as possessing a fourth tone, known technically as a " checked tone ".
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But in further tests, Tallal found that only words with stop consonants and the fast-timing requirement yield this so-called right ear advantage.
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Stop consonants, for example t, p, or k, leave a defined silent period at the end of words that can easily be distinguished.
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Historically, finals that end in a stop consonant were considered as " checked tones " and treated separately by diachronic convention, identifying Cantonese with nine tones.
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The ?disappeared from the Norwegian language, either merging with their equivalent stop consonants, represented by t and d, respectively, or being lost altogether.
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The letters and still had distinct pronunciations; still represented a stop consonant in all positions, while was likely pronounced as a voiced Catalan in eastern Catalonia ).
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The Upper Saxon dialects " outside " the Ore Mountains can be easily recognized by the supposed " softening " ( lenition ) of the voiceless stop consonants and.
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The most salient distinction between Ayacucho Quechua and the others is that it lacks the ejective ( t??, p?, t?, k?, q? ) series of stop consonants.
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Languages of the northwest coast of North America, including Chinookan languages, allow stop consonants and voiceless fricatives as syllables at the phonemic level, in even the most careful enunciation.
