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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