Voiced
Vilma Steiert
The distinction between the articulatory use of voice and the phonological use rests on the distinction between phone (represented between square brackets) and phoneme (represented between slashes). The difference is best illustrated by a rough example.
However, phonemes are not sounds in themselves. Rather, phonemes are, in a sense, converted to phones before being spoken. The /z/ phoneme, for instance, can actually be pronounced as either the [s] phone or the [z] phone since /z/ is frequently devoiced, even in fluent speech, especially at the end of an utterance. The sequence of phones for nods might be transcribed as [nɒts] or [nɒdz], depending on the presence or strength of this devoicing. While the [z] phone has articulatory voicing, the [s] phone does not have it.
What complicates the matter is that for English, consonant phonemes are classified as either voiced or voiceless even though it is not the primary distinctive feature between them. Still, the classification is used as a stand-in for phonological processes, such as vowel lengthening that occurs before voiced consonants but not before unvoiced consonants or vowel quality changes (the sound of the vowel) in some dialects of English that occur before unvoiced but not voiced consonants. Such processes allow English speakers to continue to perceive difference between voiced and voiceless consonants when the devoicing of the former would otherwise make them sound identical to the latter.
English has four pairs of fricative phonemes that can be divided into a table by place of articulation and voicing. The voiced fricatives can readily be felt to have voicing throughout the duration of the phone especially when they occur between vowels.
However, in the class of consonants called stops, such as /p, t, k, b, d, ɡ/, the contrast is more complicated for English. The "voiced" sounds do not typically feature articulatory voicing throughout the sound. The difference between the unvoiced stop phonemes and the voiced stop phonemes is not just a matter of whether articulatory voicing is present or not. Rather, it includes when voicing starts (if at all), the presence of aspiration (airflow burst following the release of the closure) and the duration of the closure and aspiration.
English voiceless stops are generally aspirated at the beginning of a stressed syllable, and in the same context, their voiced counterparts are voiced only partway through. In more narrow phonetic transcription, the voiced symbols are maybe used only to represent the presence of articulatory voicing, and aspiration is represented with a superscript h.
When the consonants come at the end of a syllable, however, what distinguishes them is quite different. Voiceless phonemes are typically unaspirated, glottalized and the closure itself may not even be released, making it sometimes difficult to hear the difference between, for example, light and like. However, auditory cues remain to distinguish between voiced and voiceless sounds, such as what has been described above, like the length of the preceding vowel.
There are two variables to degrees of voicing: intensity (discussed under phonation), and duration (discussed under voice onset time). When a sound is described as "half voiced" or "partially voiced", it is not always clear whether that means that the voicing is weak (low intensity) or if the voicing occurs during only part of the sound (short duration). In the case of English, it is the latter.
There is a hypothesis that the contrast between fortis and lenis consonants is related to the contrast between voiceless and voiced consonants. That relation is based on sound perception as well as on sound production, where consonant voice, tenseness and length are only different manifestations of a common sound feature.
Definitely yes, only your phonetic notation is not very correct. Proto-Indo-European had such stops, Sanskrit and most Indian languages have them, too ([bʱ], [d̪ʱ], [gʱ], [dʒʱ], [ɖʱ]), the very name of India in Hindi, भरत [ˈbʱaːrət̪], has the [bʱ] sound, you can listen to the word here. Note, since the stops are voiced, so the aspiration is also voiced (which is reflected in the aspiration symbol ɦ), there is no problem in pronouncing them.
A sound that can be produced is a murmured plosive (they are sometimes called voiced aspirated). Whilst an aspirated consonant has the phonation type of a [h] a murmured consonant has the phonation of a [ɦ]. They are similar in that murmured voice let's more air escape than modal voice.
The answers given so far aren't quite accurate. True voiced aspirates are possible - they begin voiced and end voiceless, so there is no contradiction. An example (the example?) is the Kelabit language.
[g], on the other hand, is a voiced stop, where voicing actuallystarts during the closure. So, the tongue moves up to the velum, thevocal folds begin vibrating, and then, when the stop is released, thevowel begins immediately. The voice onset time is negative, as thevoicing started before the closure. See yet another waveform diagrambelow, this time showing /ga/:
So, we have three stop choices: Voiced stops, voiceless unaspiratedstops, and voiceless aspirated stops, which are all used differently inthe different languages of the world. But how does this affect JimiHendrix?
So, next time you find yourself listening to Purple Haze, Thank JimiHendrix for providing one of the best examples of the perceptualtroubles which can come from our lack of a voiced/voiceless-unaspiratedcontrast in the English language. Or, curse me for linguisticallycorrupting an otherwise good song. Either or, really.
STATUS:
Common in Coastal Plain to which it is apparently restricted. If valid, one unverified record from St. Clair county in Ridge and Valley ecoregion would represent a northern disjunct population. Lowest Conservation Concern.
DISTRIBUTION:
Bird-voiced treefrogs are found throughout the southeastern United States. They range from extreme southern Illinois south through Louisiana. They are also found in central and south Alabama, extending as far south as the Florida panhandle. Additionally they are found in South Carolina and throughout central Georgia.
HABITAT AND FEEDING HABITS:
Bird-voiced treefrogs are residents of wooded swamps, river valleys, beaver ponds, and lake shores with flooded vegetation. They are a highly arboreal species climbing high into trees such as tupelo, bald cypress, and birch. Bird-voiced treefrogs are opportunistic feeders. Their diet consists mainly of spiders and small insects. Being arboreal and nocturnal they will forage primarily in trees at night time.
LIFE HISTORY:
Bird-voiced treefrogs primarily breed from April to July. Males will perch on stems or limbs 2 to 8 feet high, near or above water to perform their mating calls. Preferred breeding sites are brush edged semi-permanent to permanent pools and brush edged shores of larger ponds. Females lay packets of 6 to 15 eggs in shallow water; with an average total production of 500 to 650 eggs. Tadpoles will hatch within a few days and develop into adults within a month. Their transform size is approximately one-half inch (1.3 cm). Breeding tends to be increased with heavy rains. Bird-voiced treefrog populations are classified as threatened in their northernmost range. In Alabama populations remain stable with low conservation concern.
I am walking around the city central square, or in front of the queen's palace. I hear the same beggar, the same cheese vendor, or whatever, spouting the same "Spare a coin!"/"Buy delicious clams!". As I am going to sleep, after having played up to 3AM, I will still hear these voices in my head. Because the game is fully voiced.
I am walking around any settlement in the game, doesn't matter which. Random people are going about their randomly triggering exchanges - "Do you think the weather is improving" - "No, but I heard rumours that the mayor has changed his underpants last week". These conversations are looping every other minute. I keep hearing them every time I pass by those random dudes. After a while, I start avoiding certain streets and NPCs in the area, because I'm sick of death of their repetitive conversations. A feature that was fun in the beginning is now tiresome to hear. Because the game is fully voiced.
I am walking around town. The aforementioned NPCs dialogues kick in. I am hearing them for the Nth time. But suddenly, one of my companions starts his/her own conversation with another one of my companions! Wow, that's gonna be something fun, I want to hear it, shut up annoying NPC dudes! I try to run away into a side street, but oh no, I missed it! Because the game is fully voiced.
There is some truth in what you wrote. But personally I think after suffering through the repetitionsrepetitionsrepetitions... in DOS2 I can also survive them in PoED. Voiced actors make some sense for me, I liked it in DOS2 in the end.
Most NPCs would have a set of voiced lines which were played at random when you initiated dialogue. Although they were not corresponding to the text of the dialogue, they gave you an idea about the NPC, which is ultimately the point in an isometric game where you don't have much animations and can't see the face of the character.
Dialogues involving party members would pause the game and take place in the conversation UI, instead of hovering text. I don't know at what point and who in Obsidian got the idea that having hovering text and voiced conversations between party members play out while we are travelling through an area and my camera is on the other end of the map, is very good for my `immurshun` as opposed to having a conversation which pauses the gameplay... but they were wrong.
the problem with full vo is cost. full vo is, 'ccording to developers, extreme expensive. fantastic vo can make a good game better, but it can't make a bad game good. decent vo, on the other hand, is largely forgettable, and is nevertheless costly. there were a couple instances o' nice vo in poe, but fantastic were the exception rather than the rule. if deadfire vo is similar in quality to poe, it will be similarly hit and miss. as such, am not thinking full vo improves deafire much and all that money spent on vo coulda' instead been spent on more substantive aspects o' game development.
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