All the descriptions of the separation of gold and silver by means of aquafortisassume such a conservation of the silver in the acid.From theCambridge English Corpus
Among the 130 syllables, on average, 34fortisand 14 nasal geminate consonants were found.From theCambridge English Corpus
In other contextsfortisconsonants have been labelled as merely 'fortis' and not geminate, which is also often reflected in single letter spelling.From theCambridge English Corpus
While medial and finalfortisstops are up to four times longer than lenis ones,13 duration is neutralised in initial position.From theCambridge English Corpus
Obstruents (stops, fricatives and affricates) were grouped into lenis,fortisand aspirated.From theCambridge English Corpus
Duration measurements, though, show solid and consistent length differences, withfortisstops being almost three times as long as lenis ones.From theCambridge English Corpus
Reliabilities forfortisand geminate consonants were calculated separately.From theCambridge English Corpus
What a difference the nature of thefortis-lenis distinction makes.From theCambridge English Corpus
They include, for instance, thefortis-lenis (roughly voicelessvoiced) distinction, since the devoicing of lenis consonants was found to cause serious intelligibility problems in lingua franca communication.From theCambridge English Corpus
Fifth, voiceless obstruents and 'fortis' nasal consonants may occur before interrupted sequences.From theCambridge English Corpus
Gimson (1980 : 155) considers voiceless 'fortis' stops to be ' weakly aspirated ' in these positions.From theCambridge English Corpus
The result is that voiceless fricatives are inherently rather than derivativelyfortiswhereas, parallel to the voiced series of stops, voiced fricatives are lenis and only weakly or coincidentally voiced.From theCambridge English Corpus
Fricatives include only lenis andfortisdistinctions.From theCambridge English Corpus
Aquafortis(nitric acid) was used for separating the metals.From theCambridge English Corpus
If interrupted vowels are single nuclei, then a strong generalisation may be made regarding the distribution of voiceless andfortisconsonants, that is, they are limited to final syllables.From theCambridge English Corpus
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