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.
Each extra syllable beyond 1 shortens the vowel nucleus by 35 msec, and vowels before voiceless stops are expected to be shorter by 24 msec.
In general, both voiced and voiceless obstruents favor glide absence; where this is not the case, the pattern is erratic.
Rather, the constraint seems to be one that bars unaspirated voiceless stops in foot-initial position, as in (40).
The average duration of a voiceless stop is more than twice as great as that of a voiced stop.
Perceiving final voiceless stops without release : effects of preceding monophthongs versus nonmonophthongs.
In contrast, after voiceless stops, no comparable improvements in perceptual similarity are gained by vowel insertion.
The optimal candidate for an input cluster as in (6) with a voiceless stop followed by a voiced stop has an identical voiceless-voiced cluster.
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.
