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When you're listening to it, you are hearing the phone. That may well be voiced, even if the underlying phoneme is unvoiced.

To determine the true nature of the phoneme in a given language, you need to "flip the bit" on voicing (importantly: without adding/removing aspiration!) and see whether native speakers will treat it as different or not.



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