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Aspiration has two main meanings: (1) a goal-directed desire or ambition, where a “level of aspiration” refers to a target a person sets for future achievement; and (2) in speech, the audible breathy puff that can accompany certain consonants, such as /p/, /t/, and /k/ at the start of English words like pen, ten, and ken in many accents, typically sounding like a brief /h/ before voicing begins, while the same consonants are usually not aspirated after /s/ as in spy, sty, and sky. The verb aspirate means to pronounce with aspiration, and a noun aspirate can refer to a sound produced with aspiration; the term’s history relates to Latin roots meaning “to breathe.”
Aspiration has two main meanings: (1) a goal-directed desire or ambition, where a “level of aspiration” refers to a target a person sets for future achievement; and (2) in speech, the audible breathy puff that can accompany certain consonants, such as /p/, /t/, and /k/ at the start of English words like pen, ten, and ken in many accents, typically sounding like a brief /h/ before voicing begins, while the same consonants are usually not aspirated after /s/ as in spy, sty, and sky. The verb aspirate means to pronounce with aspiration, and a noun aspirate can refer to a sound produced with aspiration; the term’s history relates to Latin roots meaning “to breathe.”
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