(a.) Of or pertaining to consonants; made up of, or containing many, consonants.
(n.) An articulate sound which in utterance is usually combined and sounded with an open sound called a vowel; a member of the spoken alphabet other than a vowel; also, a letter or character representing such a sound.
Example Sentences:
(1) In addition, they were tested with dichotic listening for correct reports of consonant-vowel syllables.
(2) There is recent evidence that children naturally divide syllables into the opening consonant or consonant cluster (the onset) and the rest of the syllable (the rime).
(3) A rise in lactate dehydrogenase levels consonant with the amount of hemolysis is observed.
(4) Children in the first group were provided training by their parents that was intended to focus the child's attention on consonants in syllables or words and to teach discrimination between correctly and incorrectly articulated consonants.
(5) Test items in each of the 4 groups therefore contained different amounts of information regarding the nature of the following vowel, due to coarticulatory influences of the vowel on the preceding consonants.
(6) Eighty-six adults serially recalled lists of visually presented consonant letters similar in auditory or visual features or dissimilar in both feature sets.
(7) Coarticulatory effects of the vowel on the aperiodic portion were found to (1) occur early in the aperiodic portion, (2) vary with consonant and vowel, and (3) vary with vowel feature.
(8) Three male and 2 female subjects produced six repetitions of 12 utterances that were initiated and terminated by vowels and consonants of differing phonetic features.
(9) This repeated analysis should reassure physicians that isoniazid chemoprophylaxis for tuberculin skin test reactors is beneficial to the individual and consonant with public health policies.
(10) The perception of voicing in final velar stop consonants was investigated by systematically varying vowel duration, change in offset frequency of the final first formant (F1) transition, and rate of frequency change in the final F1 transition for several vowel contexts.
(11) Empowerment may be found through a moral economy grounded in use value appropriate to advanced industrial society that is consonant with Gramsci's new hegemony.
(12) The changes observed following exposure of HUVEC to heparin are consonant with the view that glycosaminoglycans may affect endothelial production of fibrinolytic components.
(13) Two reading passages, one with nasal consonants and one without, were tape-recorded for 72 subjects: 34 selected as having precise articulation and 38 selected as having imprecise articulation.
(14) Unlike intact acidotic and glucocorticoid-supplemented ADX acidotic rats, glutamine extraction was disassociated from the delivered glutamine load consonant with the role of glucocorticoid in coupling cellular glutamine transport to its metabolic utilization.
(15) The major findings were as follows: (1) no significant difference was found in consonant identification scores between aperiodic, aperiodic + vocalic transition, and vocalic transition segments in CV syllables compared to those in VC syllables; (2) consonant identifications from vocalic transition + vowel segments in VC syllables were significantly greater than those from vocalic transition + vowel segments in CV syllables; (3) no significant difference was found in vowel identification scores between aperiodic + vocalic transition, vocalic transition + vowel, and vocalic transition segments in CV syllables compared to those in VC syllables; and (4) vowel identifications from aperiodic segments were significantly greater in CV syllables than in VC syllables.
(16) Minimal pairs differing only in the voicing feature of the initial consonant were produced by four SLI and four language-matched NL children.
(17) Variation of the reaction rate with substrate concentration suggests a diffusion-limited process, consonant with the fact that enzyme and substrate are associated with particles of enormous sizes (the fat cell and the lipid droplet, respectively).
(18) The implant provided information about the amplitude envelope of the speech and the estimated frequency of the main spectral peak between 800 and 4000 Hz, which was useful for consonant recognition.
(19) Generalization data indicated that the child learned 16 word-initial consonants following treatment of only three sets of maximal opposition contrasts.
(20) Acoustic information about the place of articulation of a prevocalic nasal consonant is distributed over two distinct signal portions, the nasal murmur and the onset of the following vowel.
Umlaut
Definition:
(n.) The euphonic modification of a root vowel sound by the influence of a, u, or especially i, in the syllable which formerly followed.
Example Sentences:
(1) This is of particular interest this time round because Merkel's junior coalition partners, the Free Democrats (FDP) have been polling dangerously close to the threshold, as have the anti-Euro newcomers, the Alternative fur (umlaut over u) Deutschland.
(2) Löfven [umlaut on o], a former welder with a boxer's nose, faces the difficult challenge of trying to win back Social Democrat voters without looking like what Swedes call a betongsosse, or concrete socialist of the olden days.
(3) "The absence of umlaut in the contract which Özil finally signs will decide if Wenger was trolling us or not.
(4) Shouldn't there be an umlaut or other diacritic over a vowel?"
(5) What we know: Merkel wins, as predicted, everyone else has a rather poor night, umlauts take ages to cut and paste into liveblogs.
(6) Is it a hearsay Umlaut in keeping with the day as a whole?
(7) One of those against was the former finance minister Peer Steinbruck (umlaut over u).
(8) Then surely the Style Guide gurus couldn't object to you using umlauts to your heart's content.
(9) There have been times this season when Mourinho seemed to forget who he is, the preposterous Happy Josepersona threatening to consume him, so much so that he wasn't far off waxing lyrical about the virtues of tiki-taka, putting an umlaut in his name and setting up a Twitter account called @JöseTweets, with #teamfollowback in the bio.
(10) Therefore examples from parasitology are cited when the ending of species names, the derivatio nominis, the transcription of the German umlaut, the ending of family names as well as collective group names are explained.
(11) Updated at 7.38pm BST 7.35pm BST You thought the umlaut, Turkish ö issue divided people "Sporting Kansas CITY," writes James Hupp .
(12) Updated at 7.50pm BST 6.32pm BST Eurosceptics euro-phoric Have just got off the phone with Frauke Petry, one of the leaders of the Alternative fur Deutschland (excuse missing umlaut - no time for accents now).
(13) "The umlaut is important for pronunciation purposes."
(14) He might as well bring a 18 year old French kid named Ozil, without the umlaut of course."