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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 Apr 1.
Published in final edited form as: Biling (Camb Engl). 2012 Sep 14;16(Spec Iss 2):354–366. doi: 10.1017/S1366728912000296

Table 1.

Phonetic features for consonants in English and Chinese

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Notes: P1, Bilabial; P2, Labio-dental; P3, Dental; P4, Alveolar; P5, Post-Alveolar; P6, Retroflex; P7, Palatal; P8, Velar; P9, Labio-velar; P10, Glottal. Where symbols appear in pairs, the one to the right represents a voiced consonant. Shaded phonemes in light grey only for Chinese, the dark phonemes only for English, unshaded phonemes present in both languages.