/eÉ™/ as in square can also be prepared /ɛə/, and is additionally occasionally dealt with as a long monophthong /É›Ë/.[81]In natural speech, the plosives /t/ and /d/ often have no audible launch utterance-at last, and voiced consonants are partly or entirely devoiced (as in [b̥ædÌ¥]); thus the perceptual distinction in betw