>> 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