Lateral consonants, particularly the various realisations of /l/, occupy a unique position in the study of speech sounds by combining complex articulatory gestures with distinct phonological functions ...

Journal of the International Phonetic Association, Vol. 47, No. 3 (December 2017), pp. 321-348 (28 pages) This study investigated acoustic properties of the four-way contrast in Russian voiceless ...

We begin our discussion of phonetics, the study of speech sounds. The letters in a word don’t always match the sounds they represent, and people can pronounce words in different ways. We begin our ...

Komi-Permyak (Finno-Ugric) has a typologically rare contrast between palatal stops and palatal affricates; the latter are also contrastive with postalveolar affricates. In addition, the language has a ...