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  • This of course applies only to the ‘pre-vocalic’ R which is normally realized as a ‘frictionless continuant’ by such speakers. The Oxford BBC Guide to Pronunciation | Linguism | Language Blog
  • So from a form like Mid IE *maxéd̰a- 'to rejoice', we can simply proceed as I had explained in my previous post which relies on a certain phonotactic-based rule I'm now hypothesizing during the Pre-IE event of Syncope that changes initial sequences of expected **CHe- (C = continuant, H = laryngeal) to *Cä- instead (MIE *maxéd̰a- 'to be rejoiceful' eLIE *mäd̰- PIE *mad- 'to be drunk'). Drinking in more of the drunk-joy connection
  • The ordinary everyday notion of a continuant individual substance is in its own humble terms all right as it is.
  • These standardized percepts may also be described as visual continuants.
  • The traditionalists of the discontinuant left keep scratching the same old sores.
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  • (Feb 23 2008) Right after posting this, I realized that if PIE *sal- "salt" is to also be explained by the same phonotactic rule I propose then I had better change the statement "that changes initial sequences of expected **RHe- (R = resonant, H = laryngeal) to *Rä- instead" to the revised "that changes initial sequences of expected **CHe- (C = continuant, H = laryngeal) to *Cä- instead". Archive 2008-02-01
  • Continuants are formed with a vocal tract configuration allowing the airstream to flow through the midsaggital region of the oral tract: stops are produced with a sustained occlusion in this region.
  • Throughout Part III, he distinguishes the ‘occurrent’ from the ‘continuant’ and often discusses change, cause, and continuants with reference to determinates of determinables.
  • He aptly describes the physical objects we seem to ourselves, and take ourselves, to perceive as ‘visuo-tactual continuants '.
  • You can stretch continuants like /f/ and hold them until you run out of air.
  • In [[algebra]], the '' 'continuant' '' of a sequence of terms is an algebraic expression which has applications in [[generalized continued fraction]] s and as the determinant of a Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en]
  • The sound /r/ may be either an alveolar continuant or an alveolar tap that is particularly distinct initially (rabbit, run), after stops and fricatives (breathe, grass, three), and between vowels (carry, ferry).
  • No, because you're bounding a vowel ie. a continuant next to another continuant. Japanese dialect mirrors suspected PIE development of sibilantization between two dental stops
  • ROLAND MARTIN, CNN CONTRIBUTOR: Well, actually, what we were looking at is in terms of really a continuant. CNN Transcript Aug 28, 2008
  • Self-consciousness arises with the identification of other visuo-tactual continuants as resembling the central body in being the sources of signs.
  • She had heard about a process called continuant movement that a teacher had done with people who had spinal cord injuries and paralysis.
  • I notice that this happens only when they want to emphasize a word, because in other instances the frictionless continuant is used. The Oxford BBC Guide to Pronunciation | Linguism
  • Continuant consonants are fricatives and liquids; i.e., just about everything except nasals, stops and affricates.
  • Again, this seems reasonable and not unduly ad hoc, inasmuch as it incorporates the strong pre-theoretical intuition that substances are continuants rather than events.
  • The Hebrew-Yiddish /ch/ is a fricative, a continuant (like [s]).

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