Voicing

The voicing is a quality (or property) some its S of the Parole. A its is known as voiced if its production is accompanied by a vibration of the vocal Cords, and not voiced if not. One also usually uses the terms of sound and deaf to indicate this opposition. Any speaker can easily make the experiment of this phenomenon while placing his hand on his throat (on the level of the Adam's apple for the boys) then by pronouncing “  successively; ssssss  ” and “  zzzzzz  ”.

One also speaks about wiring for sound of the sounds.

The Vowel S, being essentially carried by the voice, are naturally voiced (even if it sometimes happens to them to undergo a process of Dévoisement, i.e. an attenuation of the laryngeal vibration , in the case of the whispered word for example).

The Consonne S of the following series are voiced, or sound :

  • occlusive ( B , D , G ) or fricative ( β , v , 2D , Z , ʒ , ʁ )
And the following series gives their hanging deaf ( not voiced ):
  • occlusive ( p , T , K ) or fricative ( ɸ , F , θ , S , ʃ , χ )

The vibrating consonants ( R ), side ( L ) and nasal ( m , N ) are regarded as voiced .

It can happen that a normally deaf sound is pronounced with a more or less significant vibration (” marked “example “Mac Do My G Do”, in the same way for “ass G equips”, “ving D - two”, etc) by “contagion” of a certain phonetic environment. It is the phenomenon of assimilation. In this case, the term of Voisement indicates this process of sound change of the originally deaf sound. In the API, one generally transcribes it using the diacritic one subscribed “    ”   ; for example, is equivalent about to.

Conversely, one also observes the assimilation of sound consonants in deaf consonants, which one names Dévoisement. Its API symbol is the “    ” souscrit  ; for example, (or) for “  médecin  ”, (or) for “  absent  ”.

In Phonetic, voicing or devoicing thus describes an empirical phenomenon. In Phonology, it corresponds to a value of Feature distinctive (at least in a language like the French).

Wiring for sound (or voicing) intervocalic as former French

About the 6th century, the consonants located between two vowels have, in Former French, voiced (it is about a weakening of the spoken language). This phenomenon led to number of words containing a consonant voiced in modern French; the nonintervocalic consonants remained deaf if necessary.

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