He rarely articulates initial consonants, or, for that matter, final consonants. Instead, his articulations tend to feature mostly connected vowels which one becomes accustomed to decrypting from ...

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.