Translations for consonantal in the English»French Dictionary (Go to French»English)

consonantal [Brit kɒnsəˈnant(ə)l, Am ˌkɑnsəˈnæn(t)l] ADJ

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Common clinical features of ataxic dysarthria include abnormalities in speech modulation, rate of speech, explosive or scanning speech, slurred speech, irregular stress patterns, and vocalic and consonantal misarticulations. en.wikipedia.org

It has only oral vowels and a fairly stable set of consonantal contrasts. en.wikipedia.org

And it would bolster the idea that laryngeals were phonetically distinctly consonantal. en.wikipedia.org

His goal was to restrict the number of reliable readings and accept only those based on a fairly uniform consonantal text. en.wikipedia.org

The glides are commonly analyzed not as independent phonemes, but as consonantal allophones of the high vowels, and. en.wikipedia.org

Thus sequences of phonetic consonants are analyzed as being phonemically consonantal as well. en.wikipedia.org

When necessary, vowels are indicated by diacritic marks above or below the letter representing the syllabic onset, or by use of "matres lectionis", which are consonantal letters used as vowels. en.wikipedia.org

When occurs at the ends of words before pauses and before other consonants, the consonantal articulation can be obscured by the vowel articulation. en.wikipedia.org

Some verbs may only have a single overt nonsyllabic consonantal prefix or a prefix lacking an onset, or no prefix at all before the verb stem. en.wikipedia.org

For those speakers that retain a consonantal pronunciation, it may be pronounced, while before a voiceless consonant it devoices to or respectively. en.wikipedia.org

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