31. This is "'voiceless "'phonation, and is extremely common with obstruents . 32. The dorsal consonants are usually coronal " obstruent , even though palatal consonants are physically dorsal. 33. Obstruents are devoiced in two environments : in syllable-final position and following a voiceless obsturent.34. :: : I guess this question has to do with final obstruent devoicing and English orthography. 35. Though they are generally not aspirated, aspiration often occurs before obstruents and epenthetic schwas before sonorants. 36. The Germanic spirant law, similarly, affected combinations of an obstruent followed by-t -. 37. Its high allophone [ j ] occurs in postconsonantal position before [ i ] or an oral obstruent . 38. Its high allophone [ ? ] occurs in postconsonantal position before [ i ] or an oral obstruent . 39. Alaskan Haida also shows simplification of to when preceding an alveolar or postalveolar obstruent , and of to. 40. One of these phonemes is considered an obstruent as it has a fricative realization of in fortis contexts.
