John Wells's phonetic blog: constraints on diacritics

John Wells

Wed, 25 Nov 2009 11:37:01 GM

Similarly, the . dental. diacritic U+032A combining bridge below would usually only be applied to a base character standing for an alveolar sound, e.g. [t, n, s]. However if someone wanted to use it with, say, ... The aspiration diacritic, [ ] , is most commonly deployed after symbols for . voiceless plosives. . The IPA Handbook also shows it with [d], although the article about Hindi in the body of the book instead uses [ ] for the voiced aspirated series, thus [b d d ...

Introduction to English Linguistics Session 3: The Sounds of English

Cornelius

Wed, 21 Nov 2007 16:50:51 GM

Phonetics describes the concrete, physical dimension of sounds, such as whether they are voiced or . voiceless. and their place and manner of articulation. The aspect of sound production is particularly what articulatory phonetics is concerned with, ... In other words, a difference that does not distinguish meaning in English (aspiration) is a salient difference in Mandarin Chinese, while another one (voicing of . plosives. ) distinguishes meaning in English but not in Chinese. ...

(Baby*~Jeong)

Sun, 17 May 2009 02:04:28 GM

lips, hard palate etc., so a consonant may be one of the following (1) bilabial: [p, b, m]; (2) labiodental: [f, v]; (3) . dental. : [,]; (4) alveolar: [t, d, l, ns, z]; (5) retroflex; (6) palato-alveolar​: [,]; (7) palatal: [j]; ...