| 21. | The two fricatives, / a / and / x /, are voiceless when unaspirated.
|
| 22. | However the underlying phoneme is certainly unaspirated because it is consistently produced when the word is suffixed.
|
| 23. | In Xiang dialects, the voiced initials of Middle Chinese yield unaspirated initials in all tone categories.
|
| 24. | All consonants except / ?/ are unaspirated, and all stops and / x / are lenis.
|
| 25. | Romanization systems use one of two arbitrary ways to represent the Chinese phonemic opposition between aspirated and unaspirated consonants.
|
| 26. | The historically voiced stops have lost their voicing, so the phonemic contrast today is between unaspirated and aspirated.
|
| 27. | At the end of a syllable, all plosives are unvoiced, unaspirated, and have no audible release.
|
| 28. | Armenian and Cantonese have aspiration that lasts about as long as English aspirated stops, in addition to unaspirated stops.
|
| 29. | The aspirated nasals and fricatives do not exist in Southern or Eastern Hmu; cognates words use their unaspirated homologues.
|
| 30. | *The following consonants may occur in the optional syllable coda : unaspirated stops, nasals, and the rhotic.
|
