consonant


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Related to consonant: Consonant clusters, Double consonant
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We found that ONH subjects showed age-related decrements in consonant identification performance that could not be completely explained by audiometric differences with the YNH group.
Rimes (also called phonograms and, in a typical school, 'chunks' or 'word families') are syllables beginning with a vowel and usually contain one or more consonant letters.
The motivation in the current study was to investigate cortical responses evoked by voiced-unvoiced consonant-vowel stimuli pairs with different consonant durations and different constituent consonant-vowel parts in order to reveal the effect of consonant duration on the formation of the syllable-evoked response.
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.
Hume considers that metathesis examples collected by Blust17 in Cebuano, are co-articulatory in nature.18 She is of the view that sometimes in CC (consonant + consonant) metathesis; place of articulation plays a major role.
The Percentage of Correct Consonant Index was calculated by the number of correct consonants of the speech sample obtained from the three ABFW tests.
These features were individually evaluated for each Arabic consonant and their impact on pronunciation.
According to Bussmann (1996:272) a geminate consonant is a "consonant that is distinguished from another exclusively by its longer period of articulation".
During the analysis of consonant combinations in intervocalic position in Tatar and Russian languages, we considered the consonant combinations between vowels, and revealed that, first of all, it is necessary to turn attention to syllable boundary in Russian and Tatar languages.
Lexical forms that are similar between the two proto has also discussed on the system of vowel and consonant phonemes.
However, it is difficult to conduct detailed assessments of other consonant articulations.
One Of the basic elements of Cohn's theory, found in chapter 1 ("Mapping the Triadic Universe"), comes from his novel approach to measuring distances between major and minor (hereafter "consonant") triads by means of "voice-leading work." In this pan-triadic world, we can quantitatively compare consonant triads based on the number of shared common tones and total amount, of voice-leading work through "idealized voice leading," an abstract concept that measures voice leading in semitones without regard to register (p.
4.1 No Consonant Cluster Word Medially in Terms of Long Vowels