VOICELESS


Meaning of VOICELESS in English

adjective

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ NOUN

stop

The symbol T indicates a following voiceless stop or sonorant + voiceless stop cluster.

For example, extraneous voiceless stops are often hypothesized at utterance onset.

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

the voiceless immigrant community

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

And listen to the cry of the voiceless .

Notice that of the plosives and fricatives there is one voiceless set and one voiced set.

Notice the lack of contrast between voiced and voiceless sounds and the predominant contrast between long and short consonants.

Longman DOCE5 Extras English vocabulary.      Дополнительный английский словарь Longman DOCE5.