The Gussenhoven article provides a foundation for understanding Kenstowicz's hypotheses regarding the Phoneme. For example, Kenstowicz remarks how one of the ways in which native English speakers can recognize people who are not native English speakers is through aspiration and devoiced consonants.
Gussenhoven explains how normally voiced consonants are pronounced without vocal cord vibration - they are devoiced. However, in some cases after consonants there is a strong burst of breath after some consonants (after the closure of some obstruents). This is the difference between the burst of air from "pin" as opposed to "bin" in which there is not a burst of air that can be felt in the pronunciation of the vowel. English speakers have aspirated plosives where the vocal cords remain open for a while. This is the case at the beginning of a soronant consonant as opposed to a vowel follows the aspirated plosive.
Kenstowicz goes on to say how Welsh speakers and English speakers have a voiceless lateral. Voiceless stops are unaspirated when proceeded by s. This may be linked to how liquid devoicing has the [spread gl] feature where the vocal chords are suppressed after a soronant.
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