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.

In both names the prominent consonants are "b" and "p" and they form a chiasmic pattern: the initial consonant in "bishops" is "b"; "p" is the prominent consonant in the second syllable; the initial consonant in "presbyters" is "p" and "b" is strongly voiced at the beginning of the second syllable.

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.

Gaps in consonant aspiration in Chengdu (missing forms in parentheses; occurring forms in boldface).

In addition, Huggins stresses that the threshold (JND) is even higher for changes in consonant than in vowel duration.

"English-speakers do not understand how to pronounce three consonants in a row," his wife said.

"It helps to have a name with, like, eight consonants in a row".

It is used to make contrasts between consonants in several American Indian languages.