. It has the same articulation as /p/ but
with voice and without aspiration and with less power./p/ - is a plosive, bilabial, voiceless consonant. Lips position depends on the next sound. Position can be spread, neutral, and rounded.
/ʌ/ - is a short, tense, mid central, unrounded, lax vowel. In pronunciation your tongue has the same position as when you keep silence. The back part of tongue rises to a front part of soft palate.
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