Voiced and voiceless sounds

[johnbert]

What is the difference between voice and voiceless sound?:up:

 

[carla43]

Not a teacher.

The difference between voiced and voiceless sounds is the vibration.
Voiced sounds occur when the vocal cords vibrate when the sound is produced.
e.g. /v/

There is no vocal cord vibration when producing voiceless sounds.
e.g. /f/

Try putting your fingertips on your throat and try to produce the sounds of /v/ and /f/. Notice that when we produce the sound of /v/ there is a vibration and that is what we called voiced. And when we produce the sound of /f/ there is no vibration and that is called voiceless sounds.

 

[Charlie Bernstein]

So when we say "voiceless," we really mean "cordless."

 

[GoesStation]

Right. Voiced and voiceless mean what they say: voiced consonants engage your voice; voiceless ones don't. You can demonstrate this by then lowering your jaw to separate your teeth from your lower lip while saying a drawn-out vvvvvvvvvv. The consonant will change to a hum.

 

[Carlay14]

Not a teacher.

Sounds are voiceless when the vocal cords are apart so that the air flows freely through the glottis into the oral cavity while the voiced sounds produce of the vocal cords are together, the airstream forces its way through that causes them to vibrate.

 

[aymie rose]

voiced sounds is when you feel vibration on your vocal track and voiceless have no vibrations as for example is the sound of /z/ for voiced and sound of /s/ for voiceless

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[teechar]

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See corrections above.

 

[emsr2d2]

I don't really do the terminology but aren't they usually called "voiced" and "unvoiced"?

 

[mattpocock]

Both voiced and voiceless are acceptable - they're different in different books.

 

[probus]

Voiced and unvoiced refer only to consonants.

For example, voiced vs unvoiced

V vs F
B vs P
D vs T
Z vs S

You use your vocal apparatus, teeth, tongue, etc in exactly the same way in each case, except that in the first you activate your voice while in the second you don't.