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From: dak@kaa.informatik.rwth-aachen.de (David Kastrup)
Subject: Re: /p/,/t/ and/k/
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stigvi@solan.unit.no (Stig Vidar Hovland) writes:

>Can someone explain an easy way to localize /p/,/t/ and /k/
>in speech.

They are unvoiced plosives, meaning they start without voice from an
obsctructed airstream. You detect them by a sudden start of relatively
high energy, decreasing very soon and usually blending into a vowel.
Because the position of the mouth is particular only for the moment
of the release of breath, you have only a very short time period for
determining the characteristic speech tract parameters. Good luck.
