How To Use Consonantal In A Sentence
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Hebrew is considered the Holy Language par excellence, but it is interesting to note that although the consonantal text of the Hebrew Bible must be reproduced according to precise orthographic rules for ritual purposes, the Jewish tradition permits translations of the text into other languages.
David Shasha: Monolingualism, Scriptural Translation and the Problem of Western Civilization
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He kept separate the constituents of consonantal clusters, relishing sibilants and fricatives as much as plosives and liquids, and studied the duration of pauses as carefully as the duration of syllables.
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As the young woman rattled on she grew more and more glib; she was what they call whopper-jawed, and spoke a language almost purely consonantal, cutting and clipping her words with a rapid play of her whopper-jaw till there was nothing but the bare bones left of them.
The Minister's Charge
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consonantal sounds
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The efficiency of our fluency training could be enormously improved if the achieved fluency gains would generalize to new words sharing consonantal onsets with the training words.
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A word or group of words difficult to articulate rapidly, usually because of a succession of similar consonantal sounds, as in Shall she sell seashells?
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She goes on to note that both English and Chinese make use of aspiration in their consonantal systems.
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In a justifiable move for consistency and accuracy, consonantal and vocalic forms of i and u are not distinguished (Lewis and Short distinguished i from j, u from v), except for use of V for capital u, with capitalized entries interfiled (Vaticanus between vatia and vaticinatio).
VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol X No 1
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These may all imply less familiar consonantal clusters, final sounds, etc so you have the plasticity of the mouth coming into play too.
E is for Error « An A-Z of ELT
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The source of the symbolism was pure word-play since in Egyptian, the word for 'to become' was *ḫāpar Sahidic ϣⲱⲡⲉ while the symbol for 'beetle' contained the same consonantal skeleton, ḫpr, but presumably with different vowels.
The scarab rises in Etruria
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He kept separate the constituents of consonantal clusters, relishing sibilants and fricatives as much as plosives and liquids, and studied the duration of pauses as carefully as the duration of syllables.
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Tonal morphophonemics is much more confusing to the beginning analyst than consonantal morphophonemics, even when the total number of rules is no greater.
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a consonantal cluster
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There's no rule for how to pronounce/write one of the function words when it appears phrase-finally - but all signs point to the prevocalic form being the special case and the preconsonantal form being the default case.
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Actually, /r/ can occur pre-consonantally in “non-rhotic” accents.
Intrusive r | Linguism | Language Blog
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It takes time and effort to master the vowel and consonantal changes associated with the past of irregular verbs.
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The pair YA-SA-SA-RA-ME (TL Za 1) ~ A-SA-SA-RA-ME (PR Za 1) only suggests a consonantal onset but this then is poor evidence for a purported morpheme that's independent of the word it precedes.
Aegean phonotactics against word-initial /j/
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a consonantal Hebrew text
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It would seem, then, that when one of these consonants follows a vowel, then sometimes the last note on the vowel sound is smoothly fused into the consonantal sound, part of its time value being given to the singing of the liquid or semivocal consonant.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman
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It was only later that these ambiguities were in large measure resolved by the creation of a system of pointing the consonantal text to represent the missing vowels.
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His work on reading Arabic, another mainly consonantal Semitic language that uses diacritics to disambiguate homophonous strings, also indicates a facilitating effect of pointing on readers mediated by context.
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So much of the book is heavy with meaning and counter-meaning, innuendo and awful implication, that translation would be a challenge even without its freight of rich consonantal Manchester Yiddish – its mitzvahs, shiksas, farshimelts, meshuggeners and yisgadals.
Guardian book club: Kalooki Nights by Howard Jacobson
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He kept separate the constituents of consonantal clusters, relishing sibilants and fricatives as much as plosives and liquids, and studied the duration of pauses as carefully as the duration of syllables.
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Hebrew is considered the Holy Language par excellence, but it is interesting to note that although the consonantal text of the Hebrew Bible must be reproduced according to precise orthographic rules for ritual purposes, the Jewish tradition permits translations of the text into other languages.
David Shasha: Monolingualism, Scriptural Translation and the Problem of Western Civilization
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Romantic experiment can only be told in the voweled curvature as well as the consonantal strokes of its patterned enunciations.
Phonemanography: Romantic to Victorian
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consonantal alliteration
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The letter g also has the hard consonantal sound as in ‘grade,’ and so a word such as garam will have the hard sound.
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The adapter learned from his informant that each regular stipple of the Phoenician consonantal alphabet represented a particular recurrent syllable of the Phoenician language.
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Eagleton calls words "which sound alike but do not rhyme exactly" a para-rhyme: "a semi-rhyme in which the consonantal sounds agree but the vowels do not" (167). close window
Sounding Romantic: The Sound of Sound
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There is verse here and fable, both equally creative in consonantal calisthenics and comic content.
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The free use of the diminutive termination in _ie_ or _y_ -- a termination capable of expressing endearment, familiarity, ridicule, and contempt as well as mere smallness -- not only has considerable effect in emotional shading, but contributes to the liquidness of the verse by lessening the number of consonantal endings that make English seem harsh and abrupt to many foreign ears.
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