All four merge in most unstressed positions after soft consonants.
There is some dispute over the phonemicity of soft velar consonants.
She relishes the sensuous vowels and soft, broad consonants; and for her, their sense is not something learned but second nature.
Kakehashi opted for it as he was satisfied with the simple two-syllable word and its soft consonants.
Alternations of hard and soft consonants represent the most abundant type.
For recording of soft consonants, digraphs are replaced by a dot above letters.
Its phonemic inventory contains soft consonants and it has voicing contrast in final position.
These sounds may be called 'hardened' or 'historically soft' consonants.
The soft and recessed consonants of German must have something to do with similar qualities in German-trained voices.
'Yeah, I got into wigs and stuff,' she says, consonants so soft that the words fuzz together.