Sentence examples for if consonant from inspiring English sources
Their ability to hold an expressive line up in the air – one of the main devices in their expressive armoury – is compromised if consonant collisions act as disruptive hurdles to the flow of tone.
If consonants represent riverbanks and vowels the river's flow, this is the word equivalent of the bottomless abyss of dry bones, where demons gather to spit acid".
If consonants do cluster, they should be only in pairs.
Furthermore, Japanese quail can correctly categorize /d/, /b/, and /g/ consonant vowel syllables even if these consonants are presented in novel vowel contexts (Kluender et al. 1987).
The bulk of the program was rhythmically steady and consonant if not completely tonal.
If the first consonant also appears elsewhere in the sequence, eliminate the second occurrence.
Banksy's coöpting of the site, if not precisely consonant with the preservationists' message, will likely lend weight to their cause.
The first element in the block is the initial consonant; if the syllable begins with a vowel, a small circle serves as a zero initial.
The contrast between broad and slender consonants is crucial in Irish, because the meaning of a word can change if a broad consonant is substituted for a slender consonant or vice versa.
Hebrew also shares with the Canaanite languages the shifts */ð/ > /z/, */θʼ/ and */ɬʼ/ > /sʼ/, widespread reduction of diphthongs, and full assimilation of non-final /n/ to the following consonant if word final, i.e. בת /bat/ from bant.
If local processing is involved in mismatch generation only in good nonword-repeaters, then a clear prediction is that mismatch responses will be reduced (and resemble those seen in poor nonword-repeaters) if a different consonant were used for each syllable of the standard.
