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    Variants that Affect Speech discusses three speech variants: 1. Aspiration refers to an explosive breath sound after consonants like /p/, /t/, and /k/ in certain positions in words like "apart" and "uncle." 2. Syllabic consonants are consonants pronounced without a vowel in unstressed syllables, occurring after stressed syllables ending in /t/, /d/, or /n/ followed by /l/ or /n/, like "bottle" and "hadn't." 3. Vowel length alters the duration of vowels, with longer vowels accompanying written double vowels and shorter vowels for single written vowels, like the difference between

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    Variants that Affect Speech discusses three speech variants: 1. Aspiration refers to an explosive breath sound after consonants like /p/, /t/, and /k/ in certain positions in words like "apart" and "uncle." 2. Syllabic consonants are consonants pronounced without a vowel in unstressed syllables, occurring after stressed syllables ending in /t/, /d/, or /n/ followed by /l/ or /n/, like "bottle" and "hadn't." 3. Vowel length alters the duration of vowels, with longer vowels accompanying written double vowels and shorter vowels for single written vowels, like the difference between

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    Variants That Affect Speech

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    Variants that Affect Speech discusses three speech variants: 1. Aspiration refers to an explosive breath sound after consonants like /p/, /t/, and /k/ in certain positions in words like "apart" and "uncle." 2. Syllabic consonants are consonants pronounced without a vowel in unstressed syllables, occurring after stressed syllables ending in /t/, /d/, or /n/ followed by /l/ or /n/, like "bottle" and "hadn't." 3. Vowel length alters the duration of vowels, with longer vowels accompanying written double vowels and shorter vowels for single written vowels, like the difference between

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    Variants that Affect Speech

    /p/, /t/ and /k/ in the


    Aspiration refers to an explosive sound of
    Aspiration of medial or final position:
    breath brought about by the sudden
    Initial release of air after the contact of parts of apart city uncle opal
    the speech mechanism.
    party cycle open testing

    Consonants which are pronounced


    Certain written gotten
    The Syllabic without a vowel in an unstressed syllable.
    They occur only when the stressed Medal Britain bottle
    Consonants
    syllable ends in /t/, /d/, or /n/ and is Student didn’t hadn’t
    followed by /l/ or /n/.

    The seat /dh siyt/


    The duration of time it takes to
    pronounce the vowel is altered by: The seed /dh siyd/
    Vowel Length
     – accompanies the length of a The heap /dh hiyp/
    vowel sound. The meal /dh miyl/

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