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con·so·nant

(kon'sŏ-nănt)
A speech sound produced by partial or complete obstruction to the flow of air at any point in the vocal apparatus.
[L. consono, to sound together]
Medical Dictionary for the Health Professions and Nursing © Farlex 2012

con·so·nant

(kon'sŏ-nănt)
A speech sound produced by partial or complete obstruction to the flow of air at any point in the vocal apparatus.
[L. consono, to sound together]
Medical Dictionary for the Dental Professions © Farlex 2012
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For example, IPA is not adapted to depict half-voiced consonants. The authors chose to depict short stops and fricatives in phonetic transcription as voiceless.
In this type of metathesis, two adjacent consonants exchange their places to form a new word.
The objective of this research was to obtain and compare the percentage of correct consonants (PCC) in hearing impaired children with Cochlear Implants and / or hearing aids, in a 12-month interval with speech-language intervention using the aural approach.
Dataset: In this study, a large Arabic dataset from 200 Pakistani speakers was collected for 28 Arabic consonants. These speakers included both, highly proficient speakers as well as new learners.
According to Paradis (1992), in the Fula language, apart from continuants, all consonants can become geminates.
No less striking is the group of 5 velar consonants (the K-family) in Column III; C, G, K, Q, X.