However, these results should be taken with caution because in those words presenting /a:/, the Speaker introduced one
consonant sound ([r] in 'hard' and 'card', and [l] in 'calm') after the vowel, influenced by rhotic accents and/or spelling.
According to the traditional accounts of Old English orthography and phonology, in the writing system of Old English <CC> digraphs usually denote geminate (or long)
consonant sounds resulting from West Germanic gemination, though, the exact phonemic value of such digraphs in Old and Middle English is still one of the moot points.
For example, in many languages, only a subset of the total inventory of
consonant sounds can appear in codas.
The word uthu `dog' is inherited from an earlier form *thuthu; neighbouring languages Wajarri and Badimaya still say thuthu for dog, but Nhanda has lost the initial th
consonant sound.
Consonant sound difference onlv: C(vb/n [+ or -] adj): (ab/dis[ChD]/mis/re/over/under)use, excuse,
To assist students in reading and understanding complex geographical concepts, teachers can: assist students to use context clues; help learners with the initial
consonant sound and then using context clues; dividing the unknown word into syllables; saying the correct word to the stalled reader; using peer reading; emphasizing peer teaching; and having students read aloud the subject matter.
At this point, Sam was still in the serniphonetic stage of writing development, but had included a final
consonant sound in his writing.
This sound cue, which lasts for one-tenth to one-fifth of a second, marks the transition from a
consonant sound to a speech segment beginning with a vowel.
Combining the semivowel with a consonant syllable results in two changes: 1) the vowel sound associated with the consonant, in this case /i/, is dropped, and 2) the preceding
consonant sound becomes palatalized.
In prosody, the slurring or omission of a final unstressed vowel that precedes either another vowel or a weak
consonant sound, as in the word heav'n.
Likewise, the doublet Q easily serves as the soft (th)
consonant sound as well as the vowel aw.
Their hearing seemed perfectly fine on standard tests, but the children confused words like "pack" and "packed" and were unable to distinguish speech sounds such as "ba," "pa," and "da." Such sounds, called stop consonants, differ from other sounds in spoken language in that they possess an incredibly sharp transition from the
consonant sound to the vowel.
The fact that the mute e continues, in poetry, to be recognized as a vocalic timbre between two consonants, while in speech the timbre is realized when it separates three or more consonants makes a stronger case for poetry's roots in singing, since the mute e's more frequent appearance ensures that the breath is never interrupted at word boundaries for more than the constriction or obstruction of one
consonant sound's realization.
