They have found that word-initial consonants are, on average, around 13 milliseconds longer than their non-initial counterparts. The diversity of languages for which this effect was found suggests ...

Word-initial consonant lengthening - a potential universal? "At the outset, we expected to find evidence contradicting the hypothesis that word-initial lengthening is a universal linguistic trait.

Effects of Different Terminal Sounds on Short-term Memory for Initial Consonant Sounds WAYNE A. WICKELGREN 1 Nature volume 203 , pages 1199–1200 ( 1964 ) Cite this article ...

In the days when I was a regular writer of fiction, critics noted my fondness for alliteration - a literary device that repeats, in two or more nearby words, their initial consonant sounds. For ...

The struggle to understand the phonetics of Chinese led to the development of rime tables and the theory of 36 initial consonants, which scholars believed could help reconstruct any syllable.

The initial consonant sounds in these words are not used in English, at least to start words. English ends words with those clusters, though: 'hats', 'chops'.