Sentence examples for no consonant from inspiring English sources

Unstressed syllables may have a short vowel followed by a short (or no) consonant.

("Many Americans pronounce... water as though it had no t in it, or even as though it had no consonant in it at all, except the w," he claimed. "On the whole we are justified in regarding the American language with suspicion").

Thus, a p in the beginning of a Finnish word corresponds to f in Hungarian (puu: fa); a Finnish k is matched by Hungarian h before a back vowel (a, o), otherwise by k; within the word, Finnish t is matched by Hungarian z, and nt by d; Finnish initial s sometimes corresponds to Hungarian sz and sometimes to no consonant at all (syli: öl).

The syllable progresses from a simple initial (there are no consonant clusters) to a simple final (there are no stops), by a complex movement involving both variation and shift in the quality of the mediating vowel.

Old English alliteration, then, is an "agreement of the stressed elements in beginning with the same consonant, or in beginning with no consonant".

Similarly, if there are two vowels placed together, the second vowel must be freestanding since there is no consonant immediately before it.

Campus debate about Woodrow Wilson's contributions to Princeton, and to domestic and global politics could serve as an important teaching moment for a larger public -- not just Ivy League students -- to reveal a prominent historical figure as a human being with very human flaws or at minimum, with ideological positions that are no longer consonant with enlightened contemporary public opinion.

In this simplest case of equal group sample sizes within PP and ITT we thus have, assuming as an example As a consequence, the resulting family of tests is no longer consonant, although the differences in the resulting local significance levels are small.

First, no consonants have been simulated, so the effect of gestural overlap between consonant and vowel has not yet been modeled.

When a word has three or more syllables, and the second to last syllable has a short vowel followed by only one or no consonants, the stress falls on the syllable before it.

Thus, the 5-factor design used in the ANOVA was Smoking (2: yes/ no) × Consonant (3: /b,d,g/) × Vowel (2: /a,u/) × Electrode (6: frontal, central, parietal, occipital, anterior temporal, posterior temporal) × Hemisphere (2: left, right).