Sentence examples for the same consonant from inspiring English sources

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

The same consonant was used in all syllables to minimize variation in the waveforms elicited by each syllable.

In our paradigm, the same consonant appeared in all four syllables and the order of vowels was held constant for both standard and deviant stimuli in a block, meaning minimal demands were placed on the encoding of serial order.

In the study by Struiksma, reading problems were most apparent when children were required to read words beginning with the same consonant cluster but followed by different vowels (e.g., blaf - blik - blok ['bark'- 'can' - 'block']).

This difference may affect the quality of consonant sound because although the participants were instructed to produce the same consonant, the consonant sounds of the two groups of subjects were unique, with the Thai group producing a shorter consonant sound than the Japanese group.

Portuguese uses the same consonant as English does, except K, W and Y, which are only used in foreign loan words.

In French, it's ophtalmologue, without the second "h," so I assumed that, having the same root, both the French and English words would share the same consonants.

Thus the Egyptian words for "man" and "be bright," both spelled with the same consonants, hg, could be rendered by the same hieroglyph.

The sound system of Chinese is marked by its use of tones to indicate differences of meaning between words or syllables that are otherwise identical in sound (i.e., have the same consonants and vowels).

When those rabbis asked when was the first Eicha (the opening word in Hebrew of the Book of Lamentations, bewailing the destruction of the Temple), some of them answered it was a word with the same consonants but different vowels: Ayekka, God's outcry, "Where are you?" to Eve and Adam in Eden, the Garden of Delight (MIdrash Eicha Rabbah, Proems IV).

When the consonant was the second in a consonant cluster, children had less correct detections than for that same consonant outside a cluster.