| More generally, voiceless obstruents are more frequent in onset position than voiced obstruents. |
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| In phonetics, articulation may be divided into two large classes, obstruents and sonorants. |
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| Voiced obstruents can stand only before vowels, sonorants and voiced obstruents in the same word. |
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| Another common feature is that the level of tone is lowered after the occurrence of certain depressor consonants, namely voiced fortis obstruents. |
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| Clusters of obstruents always agree in voicing, and clusters of sibilants and of plosives with the same point of articulation are prohibited. |
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| Like all other Southern German dialects, Swiss German dialects have no voiced obstruents. |
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| Whereas obstruents are frequently voiceless, sonorants are almost always voiced. |
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| Sonorants contrast with obstruents, which do stop or cause turbulence in the airflow. |
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| The notion of syllable is challenged by languages that allow long strings of obstruents without any intervening vowel or sonorant. |
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| There are five place contrasts for oral and nasal obstruents, and four for approximants. |
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| The weakening of obstruents in sonorous environments, especially between vowels, is a very common phenomenon in languages all over the world. |
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| When two obstruents occurred in a pair, the first was changed according to Grimm's law, if possible, while the second was not. |
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| In other words, in this scenario, Verner's law affected all obstruents, not just fricatives. |
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| All obstruents are consonants, but sonorants include both vowels and consonants. |
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| The phonological effects of lenition, stated broadly, are that stops and m become continuants, coronal obstruents become laryngeal or dorsal, and f is deleted. |
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| One feature that does distinguish Low German from English generally is final devoicing of obstruents, as exemplified by the words 'good' and 'wind' below. |
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| Obstruents are prototypically voiceless, but voiced obstruents are common. |
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| In phonetics, aspiration is the strong burst of breath that accompanies either the release or, in the case of preaspiration, the closure of some obstruents. |
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| Obstruents contrast with sonorants, which have no such obstruction and so resonate. |
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