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