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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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In this case, the relative stability of consonantal information, as well as most suprasegmental information, could have made up for the deficiencies in vowel cues.
De acordo com a literatura as caracteristicas apresentadas por S1 expressam um atraso na aquisicao fonologica verificado pela presenca de processos supridos na aquisicao fonologica tipica entre quatro e cinco anos de idade, ou seja, quadro final de aquisicao da liquida /r/, omissao de /s/ e /r/ em coda, reducao de encontro consonantal e anteriorizacao de fricativas palatais.
After these suffixes attach to singular forms, a number of phonological alternations affecting the vowels, syllabic structure or consonantal quality of the singular forms occur.
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Among specific topics are consonantal variation in the English of a Spanish-substrate community, evidence from a Portuguese dialect corpus on the areal dimension of non-standard syntax, a variety of Acadian French spoken in Canada's northeastern New Brunswick, interpreting Ngwi variation in China's Red River valley, and three regional variants in Briancon as a case study on whether the scope of regionalisms affect their retention.
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Campbell Weak declension Nouns of Dental relationship stems Hogg Consonantal stems (r-stems) (p-stems) fin-stems: on-stems, Fn- stems all the equivalents of Campbell's minor declensions) Campbell Stems in Indo-European nd-stems Athematic nouns -es-, -os- Hogg s-stems nd-stems Root-stems Table 4.
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