Sentence examples for to consonant from inspiring English sources

Based on a mnemonic system that makes numbers equivalent to consonant sounds and skips the vowels, the solution is "Uncuff We Tie Them".

Music using the system of functional harmony has a flow of harmonic movement through contrasting chords and through passages from consonant to dissonant to consonant chords.

The j sound, as y in English year (from older nonsyllabic Indo-European i), tended to palatalize the preceding consonant either by merging with it or by giving rise to consonant groups such as b from bj (by).

Subjects that were attracted to harmonicity, he found, were drawn to consonant sounds more consistently than they disliked beating.

This is the first study to show a perceptual bias related to consonant manner and to directly measure a consonant perception bias within the same infants.

To explore the feasibility of extending this framework to consonant manner perception, we investigated perception of the stop vs. fricative consonant contrast /b/-/v/ to test the hypothesis that young infants will display a perceptual bias grounded in the acoustic-phonetic properties of these sounds.

Firstly, the existence of vowel-to-consonant coarticulation might aid vowel identification.

This vowel-to-consonant coarticulation appears to have perceptual salience in CG as well based on native-listener intuition.

This claim will be corroborated if vowel realisations in CG can be shown to fall at various points on a continuum and if vowel-to-consonant coarticulation is shown to take place in the language.

The results of the present study also offer support for the phonetic account as strong evidence for vowel-to-consonant coarticulation, even in extreme cases of apparent vowel elision, has emerged from the analyses of the data.

The great degree of anticipatory vowel-to-consonant coarticulation also supports this hypothesis, as it demonstrates that the vowel is still present, in some form, in the acoustic record.