Voiced Plosives

/b d ɡ/ are generally fully voiced.

In the word list, voicing starts 146 msec before the release of the plosive in barang ‘thing’ and 88 msec in daun ‘leaf’, though surprisingly there is no prevoicing in gaji ‘wage’.

In the passage, most instances of /b d ɡ/ occur following another voiced sound, either a vowel or a nasal, and there is no break in voicing. However, diurang ‘they’, which occurs at the start of a sentence, has 17 msec of voicing before the release of the plosive, and dari ‘than’, which occurs after kuat ‘strong’ near the end of the passage, has 76 msec of voicing before the release of the plosive and following the silence associated with the unreleased /t/ in kuat.