Sentence examples for * consonant in from inspiring English sources

During the first consonant in sea these have a tendency to be at a higher centre frequency, and hence a higher pitch, than in the pronunciation of the first consonant in she.

Somewhere along the way, what was once a scarlet letter became just another consonant in the personal résumé.

Its language is essentially consonant, in the manner Mr. Penderecki adopted after abandoning his avant-gardism of the 1950's and 1960's.

The consonant in the middle of a word such as letter or Betty is often made in this way in American English.

The precise positioning and shapes of some of these depends on whether the consonant in question has a central stroke, a right stroke, or neither.

Yeah.' And later that night in the country club a man who claimed to have been Barnet's reserve goalkeeper changed a consonant in 'Tigger' to explain his distaste for the world's greatest golfer.

There are a million more ways that languages differ that we haven't mentioned here; the classifiers of Chinese, evidentiality in Turkish, consonant mutation in Welsh and Irish, the future subjunctive of Portuguese, the dual number in Arabic... the list goes on, and that's just for the big languages Rosetta Stone teaches.

It is the distinguishing characteristic of the soft consonants in Russian and also occurs, to a lesser extent, in English; e.g., in the first consonant in the word leaf.

We will present results on speed and accuracy deficits in identifying and discriminating speech contrasts, the perception of stop consonants in comparison to nonstop consonants, and the perception of consonants in consonant clusters in comparison to their perception as a single consonant.

Few words end in a consonant, except in such archaic dialects as Cantonese.

Words were paired with pseudowords in which the onset consonant differed in place of articulation, and the vowel, in height and backness.