0 If a group of people is voiceless, it does not have the power or the legal right to express their opinions:
He spent his life fighting for the rights of the voiceless and the underprivileged.
Table 10 gives the mean percentages of targetlike, devoiced, and wrongly voiced responses for the eight voiced and voiceless targets, collapsed across tasks and subjects.
Our last phonological argument comes from neutralisation, which produces voiceless aspirates in a wide range of languages, some of which are given in (7).
All test words are given in their orthographic form since what is at issue is whether the stops are voiced, aspirated, or voiceless and unaspirated.
In such cases, stops are normally realised as voiceless.
Conversely, target voiceless obstruents were produced incorrectly as voiced in onsets, but were produced correctly in codas.
Not expected, however, is that onsets contribute to syllable weight - and that voiceless onsets attract stress over voiced onsets.
We use capital letters to indicate vowels before voiced coda consonants and lower case letters to indicate vowels before voiceless coda consonants.
In a nine-minute conversational sample he found 206 words ending in voiceless plosives, of which 61 occurred in turn-final position and 145 in turn-medial position.
