consonantal sounds. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
The most frequently repeated consonantal sounds are. From Wordnik.com. [The Principles of English Versification] Reference
Every pre-consonantal and pre-final orthographic ‘r’ is dropped. From Wordnik.com. [Intrusive r | Linguism | Language Blog] Reference
All these purely consonantal transcriptions do is mire everything in artificial mystery. From Wordnik.com. [New info on 'lily'] Reference
The vowels were in many modes represented bytehtar, usually set above a consonantal letter. From Wordnik.com. [The Lord of the Rings]
At that point, palatalization and labialization could be understood as consonantal features. From Wordnik.com. [The Great Pre-IE Centralization] Reference
There are simply not enough of them to support a double contrast three full consonantal series. From Wordnik.com. [A new value for Minoan 'd'] Reference
Articulate with energy the final consonantal combinations of all such words as: ENGLAND'S, BURNS. From Wordnik.com. [The Ontario High School Reader] Reference
"There are simply not enough of them to support a double contrast three full consonantal series.". From Wordnik.com. [A new value for Minoan 'd'] Reference
Why did they not turn it off with the simple explanation which they give to the consonantal I-- that of double I?. From Wordnik.com. [The Roman Pronunciation of Latin Why we use it and how to use it] Reference
I initially before another vowel has the consonantal sound of y in you, yore in Sindarin only: as in Ioreth, Iarwain. From Wordnik.com. [The Lord of the Rings]
Nevertheless, the presence of "surplus" characters for certain consonantal series poses a problem for interpretation. From Wordnik.com. [A new value for Minoan 'd'] Reference
ASSONANCE, the repetition, in final syllables, of the same vowel sound followed by a different consonantal sound, 166 f. From Wordnik.com. [The Principles of English Versification] Reference
These usually represented aspirated consonants (e.g. t+h, p+h, k+h), but might represent other consonantal variations required. From Wordnik.com. [The Lord of the Rings]
These may all imply less familiar consonantal clusters, final sounds, etc so you have the plasticity of the mouth coming into play too. From Wordnik.com. [E is for Error « An A-Z of ELT] Reference
CONSONANCE, specifically, in metrics, a form of incomplete rime in which the consonantal sounds agree but the vowel sounds differ, 166 f. From Wordnik.com. [The Principles of English Versification] Reference
As to pre-consonantal /r/s in the General British accent, I gave numerous examples in my article#4 at Section 3 of my website www.yek.me.uk. From Wordnik.com. [Intrusive r | Linguism | Language Blog] Reference
It seems certainly a better-founded concept to suppose a primary difference between certain consonantal series based on aspiration/non-aspiration. From Wordnik.com. [A new value for Minoan 'd'] Reference
I just discovered Minoan language blog by Andras Zeke, and in particular an intelligent post called Treatment of consonantal clusters in Linear A and B. From Wordnik.com. [Linear A treatment of consonant clusters] Reference
Articulation, which is the pronunciation of a consonantal sound, is accomplished by interrupting the air-current, whether vibratory or not, at certain points. From Wordnik.com. [The Child-Voice in Singing treated from a physiological and a practical standpoint and especially adapted to schools and boy choirs] Reference
Eagleton calls words "which sound alike but do not rhyme exactly" a para-rhyme: "a semi-rhyme in which the consonantal sounds agree but the vowels do not" (167). close window. From Wordnik.com. [Sounding Romantic: The Sound of Sound] Reference
More scary, we are seeing consonantal shift in the meme's structure. From Wordnik.com. [broadstuff] Reference
It lacks the consonantal elements, the characteristic of articulation. From Wordnik.com. [Man And His Ancestor A Study In Evolution] Reference
Gascoigne's line, despite the consonantal brake pads, never loses its robustness. From Wordnik.com. [Books news, reviews and author interviews | guardian.co.uk] Reference
Powers speaks of the language as “hopelessly consonantal, harsh, and sesquipedalian,”. From Wordnik.com. [Seventh Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1885-1886, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1891] Reference
One scribe wrote the consonantal text; another put in vowel-points and accents of Massorah. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman] Reference
But when we consider the consonantal value, the interplay and the exquisite repetition of. From Wordnik.com. [Poetry] Reference
The most common combinations of consonantal sounds in pairs are those represented in the following. From Wordnik.com. [The American Union Speaker] Reference
Such were some of the painstaking means employed to preserve the consonantal text of the Massorah. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman] Reference
However, the Masoretic scribes preserved (along with the biblical consonantal text itself) an ancient. From Wordnik.com. [WN.com - Articles related to Hindus in ritual tongue-piercing in east India] Reference
The consonantal text is a far better witness; unfortunately the tradition of this text was almost absolutely uniform. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman] Reference
The efforts of copyists would seem to have become more and more minute and detailed in the perpetuation of the consonantal text. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman] Reference
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