The digraphs } }, } } and } } are pronounced,, and respectively before vowels and voiced consonants, and, and respectively before voiceless consonants.
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One example of assimilation is consonant voicing and devoicing, wherein voiceless consonants are voiced before and after voiced consonants and voiced consonants are devoiced before and after voiceless consonants.
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One example of assimilation is consonant voicing and devoicing, wherein voiceless consonants are voiced before and after voiced consonants and voiced consonants are devoiced before and after voiceless consonants.
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Such processes allow English speakers to continue to perceive difference between voiced and voiceless consonants when the devoicing of the former would otherwise make them sound identical to the latter.
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:Because in Japanese the'i'in'shi'is very often almost silent, especially at the end of a word or before a voiceless consonant.
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For restrictions on combinations of voiced and voiceless consonants in clusters, see Czech, Polish does not have syllabic consonants the nucleus of a syllable is always a vowel.
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The first phoneme of the locative, " D ", changes according to the previous consonant : it is " t " after voiceless consonants, but " d " elsewhere.
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That is, for a word with a single stressed vowel, all voiced segments will be either oral or nasal, while voiceless consonants are unaffected, as in oral vs nasal.
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A peculiarity of Permic is the occurrence of the voiced consonants such as * b, * g word-initially even in inherited vocabulary, apparently a development from original PU voiceless consonants.
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A glottal stop also is very different from a canonical voiceless consonant, which is produced with the vocal folds spread wide apart so that they don't vibrate while the air passes through.
