Example sentences for: unvoiced

How can you use “unvoiced” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • The reason for this variation is that when the Cyrillic letter that represents our English v -sound is final in a word, as in the nominative case for Gorbachev , it is unvoiced and sounds like f (or ff for good measure); when an inflectional ending is added, as in Gorbacheva (the genitive case), that same letter is voiced, like v .

  • For example, one extreme lexical transformation is the nickname Poll which is derived from Mary, in which the m has been both occluded and unvoiced, the a has been retracted, the r has been lingualized, and the y has been dropped. (p. 306.)


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