Sentence examples for soft sign from inspiring English sources
noun
The Cyrillic letter /, which in modern languages serves to denote a soft (palatalized) consonant.
NSSs were assessed using the soft sign subscales of the Cambridge Neurological Inventory.
Under Soviet rule, the city usually went by the Russian name of Lvov; in independent Ukraine it is Lviv (or L'viv if you insist on the "soft sign", which turns the "l" into something closer to a "lyuh").
Aside from consonants that don't exist in English and the "soft sign" (represented in this entry by an apostrophe), which softens the consonant before it, the vowels in Russian are big beefy things, requiring facial muscles that never get a workout in English.For my first few months in Moscow I felt as if I was chewing pebbles.
(Soft sign)Sound you might be able to make This letter softens the consonant before it.
(Soft sign)—Sound you might be able to make This letter softens the consonant before it.
Notice how the tip of your tongue is pressed a little farther back against the roof of your mouth than with a hard L? That's what the Russian soft sign does to an L. Ekranka: Crushing pirated DVDs.
Neurological soft signs and cognitive performance in early childhood.
Eighteen of the participants were also assessed on an inventory of neurological soft signs.
Previous structural neuroimaging studies linked cerebellar deficits to neurological soft signs (NSS) in schizophrenia.
Numerous reports have emphasized the value of neurological soft signs (NSS) as endophenotypic markers in schizophrenia.
Neither neuropsychological test deficits nor neurological soft signs pretreatment predicted response to behavioural treatment.
