They have found that word-initial consonants are, on average, around 13 milliseconds longer than their non-initial counterparts. The diversity of languages for which this effect was found suggests ...

Words with unvoiced initial consonants are underlined. Frequency is represented on the y axis (0–35 kHz) and time on the x axis (–50 to 700 ms).

Word-initial consonant lengthening - a potential universal? "At the outset, we expected to find evidence contradicting the hypothesis that word-initial lengthening is a universal linguistic trait.

Patrick Snellings, Aryan van der Leij, Henk Blok, Peter F. de Jong, Reading fluency and speech perception speed of beginning readers with persistent reading problems: the perception of initial stop ...

Interestingly ‘le’ does not normally aspirate the initial consonant of the following noun, ‘le mála’ (with a bag), but it does aspirate in this phrase.

László Honti, Comments on Uralic historical phonology, Acta Linguistica Hungarica, Vol. 60, No. 1 (2013), pp. 1-68 ...