An investigation of two alveolar stop consonants in White Hmong
Nerida Jarkey · Linguistics of the Tibeto-Burman Area · 1987
White Hmong has a fairly large inventory of stop consonant phonemes all of which occur in initial position only in the basically CV syllable structure. With only one exception, at each place of articulation where stops (and affricates) occur, the following series is found --- voiceless, voiceless aspirated, pre—nasalized and pre-nasalized with aspiration. The exception is the alveolar set, which has only two members, neither of which belong to any of these four categories. The purpose of this paper is to discuss the auditory, acoustic and articulatory properties of these two alveolar stops in White Hmong.