consonant sound

collocation in English

meaningsofconsonantandsound

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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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sound
noun
uk
/saʊnd/us
/saʊnd/
something that you can hear or that can ...
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(Definition ofconsonantandsoundfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofconsonant sound

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In a forced choice task, the listeners then had to make a check mark beside theconsonantsoundthey thought they had heard.
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A symbol in a syllabary typically represents aconsonantsoundfollowed by a vowel sound, or just a vowel alone.
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Consonance occurs where aconsonantsoundis repeated throughout a sentence without putting the sound only at the front of a word.
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Alliteration is a special case of consonance where the repeatedconsonantsoundis at the stressed syllable.
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To denote a pureconsonantsoundnot followed by a vowel, a special diacritic "virama" is used to cancel the inherent vowel.
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The three nasal sounds assimilate to the point of articulation of the followingconsonantsound.
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Where the next word begins with aconsonantsound, "a" is used.
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Each such character in fact represents aconsonantsoundtogether with an inherent vowel either or.
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Liquids comprised a slightly greater percentage of total medial consonant sounds (5%) than initial (4%) or final (1.5%), based on overall consonant productions.
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Tense-marking errors or omissions may occur as the result of difficulties in the articulation of consonant sounds.
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Likewise, the consonant network is trained to produce consonant sounds based on speaker-generated examples from an initial gesture vocabulary.
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Shrubbing is done by replacing a word'sconsonantsound(s) with another or others of a similar place of articulation.
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The consonant sounds, of course, are much more delicate and much less robust than the vowel sounds.
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Every consonant has one sound at the beginning of a syllable but must conform in pronunciation to one of the aforementioned terminal consonant sounds.
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Note how the consonant sounds in the table for initials collapse in the table for final sounds.
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It repeats consonant sounds as a form of alliteration.
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The system works by converting numbers into consonant sounds, then into words by adding vowels.
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For example, the professional might instruct the child in the placement of the tongue or lips in order to produce certain consonant sounds.
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It works by converting numbers first into consonant sounds, then into words by adding vowels.
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