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Re: /p/ versus devoiced b?

From:D Tse <exponent@...>
Date:Monday, January 29, 2001, 0:30
>> Voiceless and voiced consonants differ in more than just vocal chord >> vibration (voicing). One major difference is "voice onset time" (VOT). >> Voiceless consonants have a longer period of voicelessness before the >> voicing of the vowel begins than do the voiced consonants: this is the >> aspiration.
> Is this how you can still tell the difference between English B & P even > when whispering?
Actually, funnily enough when I wrote the original question this was what I was wondering as well :| Imperative