Sentence examples for be made consonant from inspiring English sources

Revolutionary priorities had to be made consonant with other needs.

If we consider the onset to be made of a consonant C and a glide G, the maximal syllable size is CGVX, where X can be C or V.

For instance, in a phenomenon known as the McGurk effect, people can be made to hear one consonant when a similar one is being spoken.

Of these, /kw/ and /gw/ were probably single labialized velar consonants, not clusters, as they do not make for a heavy syllable; /gw/ occurs only after /n/, so only guesses can be made about its single consonant status.

Remember, syllables can be made from more than one consonant and one vowel.

Because these borrowings were made after the consonant shift, they do not show its effects.

Primary articulation refers to either (1) the place and manner in which the stricture is made for a consonant or (2) the tongue contour, lip shape, and height of the larynx used to produce a vowel.

If the Chinese onset is made of one consonant, there should be no contour feature in it.

It is high time that a judicious decision is made that is consonant with President Barack Obama's repeated promise to the American public that the war in Afghanistan will end in the year 2014.

Most important, some of the symbols of the Semitic alphabet, which represented only consonants, were made to represent vowels: the Semitic consonants ʾalef, he, yod, ʿayin, and vav became the Greek letters alpha, epsilon, iota, omicron, and upsilon, representing the vowels a,e,i,o, and u, respectively.

Groups of consonants are made pronounceable by prothesis or epenthesis (the insertion of a vowel at the beginning or in the middle of a word, respectively).