Pre-voicing (phonetics)

Pre-voicing (phonetics)

In phonetics, prevoicing means that voicing begins before the release of a stop consonant. This means that the voice onset time has a negative value. In the Extended IPA for speech pathology, this is transcribed with a voicing diacritic placed in front of the consonant, as in IPA| [ ̬z] .

Phonemically prevoiced consonants such as IPA| [dtʰ] and IPA| [dts’kx’] have been reported from some of the Khoisan languages of Southern Africa, such as Ju/’hoan and !Xóõ. IPA| [dtʰ] is often analyzed as a single segment, a voice contour. However, some linguists have analyzed it instead as a consonant cluster with mixed voicing.


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