ABSTRACT
Most varieties of English have some nasally released stops. The release phase of stops can also be modified by suppressing it altogether. Unreleased stops come about in one of two ways. Incomplete stops are so called because the release phase is not heard. Such double articulations are quite common in natural language. A double articulation consists of two simultaneous articulations at different places, where both are of the same manner. Secondary articulations occur very commonly in speech. For example, in English, when people produce bilabial sounds, their tongues get into position early for the following sound; conversely, when people produce consonants with the tongue, their lip shape may be already rounded or spread for a following rounded or spread vowel. Labialization is one of the most common secondary articulations, and it is very often found as a context-driven variant. Palatalization occurs, for example, in Irish. In that language many consonants have a palatalized and a nonpalatalized form.
