consonant inventory

collocation in English

meaningsofconsonantandinventory

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consonant
noun[C]
uk
/ˈkɒn.sə.nənt/us
/ˈkɑːn.sə.nənt/
one of the speech sounds or letters of the alphabet that is not a vowel. Consonants are pronounced by stopping the air from flowing easily through the mouth, especially by closing the lips or touching the teeth with ...
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inventory
noun
uk
/ˈɪn.vən.tər.i/us
/ˈɪn.vən.tɔːr.i/
a detailed list of all the things in ...
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(Definition ofconsonantandinventoryfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Liquids were not reported in initial position and comprised only 2% of the finalconsonantinventory, occurring most frequently intervocalically.
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This is reflected in the fact that a language'sconsonantinventoryis typically larger than its vowel inventory.
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It predicts that whenever a particular segment type is neutral theconsonantinventorymust contain representatives of all less marked types.
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An independent phonetic analysis was employed for constructing theconsonantinventoryof each child.
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Note, however, that this practice is not usual in counting theconsonantinventoryof a language.
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Dialects differ primarily inconsonantinventory, existence of register, and the degree to which the language has been influenced by the surrounding national language(s).
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Finnish has aconsonantinventoryof small to moderate size, where voicing is mostly not distinctive, and fricatives are scarce.
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X is famous for having probably the largestconsonantinventoryof any language on the planet.
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This includes above all the highly asymmetricconsonantinventoryand the basic word order.
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Margi also has a largeconsonantinventory, with a number of labialized consonants and unusual things such as a labiodental flap.
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Most interesting though is the lack of relationship betweenconsonantinventorysize and vowel inventory size.
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The benefit of a cluster analysis is that it greatly reduces theconsonantinventoryof the language.
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The only exceptions were the three children in the longitudinal study whose consonant inventories were limited at the earliest recording session.
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To investigate the third question, we examine the consonant inventories of children at different stages of coda production.
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The fact that stops are present in all consonant inventories is one manifestation of the effect of the consonant scale.
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My proposal for the link is found in the status of the fricative class in consonant inventories.
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