Transcription Practice: Voicing, Aspiration, Implosives, Ejectives
For
Linguistics
103, "Introduction to General Phonetics"
as taught by Bruce
Hayes
Department of Linguistics
UCLA
Instructions
At three places of articulation -- bilabial, alveolar, velar -- you will
heard instances of five types of stops: plain voiceless, voiceless
aspirated, fully voiced, voiceless ejective, and implosive.
Train yourself on the training examples, then test yourself on the testing examples.
I've rather exaggerated the differences in my productions -- real languages would be harder!
Training examples
plain voiceless | listen | |
voiceless aspirated | listen | |
fully voiced | listen | |
ejective | listen | |
implosive | listen |
Testing examples
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