dental consonant


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Synonyms for dental consonant

a consonant articulated with the tip of the tongue near the gum ridge

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It is <-na > if it is preceded by dental consonant as in (59).
But on the following page Kloekhorst claims that the present third singular of verbs with the same shape and from the same prehistoric source represent/-et (s)i/, because already in OH an original long /e/ was shortened before dental consonants" (emphasis mine--HCM).
A lack of flexibility at the tongue tip can be resolved with exercises that employ dental consonants. A quick flip of the tongue is required for the articulation of [d], [n], [t], [l], and [r].
Column [IV.sub.a] contains the semi-vowels (H, L, R, Y) and Column [IV.sub.b], the dental consonants (D, N, T).
Computer scientists and engineers who are working on the project discuss such aspects as machine learning approaches for Bangla statistical machine translation, parsing Bangla grammar using context free grammar, the perception of vowels and dental consonants in Bangla speech processing, and the search and study of lexical richness in the Bengali literary collection of Rabindranath Tagore.