The contrast between broad and slender consonants plays a critical role not only in distinguishing the individual consonants themselves, but also in the pronunciation of the surrounding vowels, in the determination of which consonants can stand next to which other consonants, and in the behavior of words that begin with a vowel.
When Japanese is written with Latin characters (called ローマ字 "rōmaji"), you can tell these pauses by two consonants next to each other - in this case, the two Ts (mittsu).
Next to other slender consonants, it is a mid-centralized, e.g. [ˈsˠaːlʲɪ̽] "salt water".
The snag seemed to be the extremely brief sounds--just tens of milliseconds long--that distinguish one consonant from the next.
So next time you have seven consonants on your rack and N, P, and W are among them, enjoy the fact that you can at least make a three-letter word.
Once 5 stimulus items are acquired for a given goal, treatment will move up the hierarchy to the next level (e.g. once a consonant-vowel (CV) syllable is achieved, consonant-vowel-consonant-vowel (CVCV) sequences using the same speech sounds will be targeted).
French words are connected by the liaison system, in which a word ending in a consonant links to the next one if it begins with a vowel.
The next 40 symbols represent syllables composed of an initial consonant (or consonants) followed by a vowel, e.g., ka, shi, fu, te, yo.
On the original rule, the voiceless consonant
For example, if you have all consonants, it's possible you might only be able to play one letter and there's a good chance the next letter you draw will also be a consonant.
