In the fiercely argued and timely study "Down Girl: The Logic of Misogyny" (Oxford), the philosopher Kate Manne makes a consonant argument about sexual violence.
Similarly, using synthetic speech stimuli it is possible to make a series of consonant sounds that go by acoustically equidistant steps from [b] through [d] to [g].
The r sound was assimilated to following dental sounds (l, n, s, t, d) to make a series of retroflex consonants (ḷ, ṇ, ṣ, ṭ, ḍ, pronounced with the tip of the tongue curled up toward the hard palate) in many Swedish and Norwegian dialects, including those of Oslo and Stockholm.
In this theory, such virtual pitches could make an interval more consonant.
Kenneally cites the work of Tecumseh Fitch, an evolutionary biologist who discovered that the human larynx, which lies low in the throat, allowing us to make a range of vowel and consonant sounds, is not the unique organ many researchers had assumed.
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 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.
If the letter and number appeared in blue, participants were instructed to make a consonant/vowel judgment for the letter by pressing one of two labeled keys.
Lee Ranaldo of Sonic Youth swung his guitar overhead, shook it at his amplifier, hit it with a drumstick and made a glorious, strangely consonant clangor of calibrated feedback backed by DJ Spooky spinning jazz drum solos.
But Mr. Miller believes that our very scientific soul is at stake and that the argument for intelligent design is just the first step in an attempt to redefine science itself and make it consonant not with scientific truth but with whatever you want to believe.
