Aspirované souhlásky v čínštině a v angličtině

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The article treats the phenomenon of aspiration in Mandarin Chinese and English within a broader linguistic context. The topics discussed are: 1. both the general and language-specific articulatory and acoustic make-up of aspirated consonants (i.e. long overall duration, tense articulation, long VOT; the alternative sources of aspiration friction are reminded, as opposed to a common view emphasizing mainly the glottal friction), 2. the unlike functioning of aspiration in English and Mandarin Chinese (English: a secondary phonetic feature of stops /p/, /t/, /k/ in particular positions; Chinese: an essential distinctive feature of the consonantal subsystem operating in three pairs of stops and three pairs of affricates). After reviewing possible options for making phonological contrast in stops (and affricates) employing the laryngeal phonological features [voiced] and [aspirated], the author presents cross-linguistically manifold ways of phonetic realisations of the phonological categ

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