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单词 consonant
释义
consonant
noun[C]
uk
/ˈkɒn.sə.nənt/us
/ˈkɑːn.sə.nənt/
B1
one of thespeechsoundsorlettersof thealphabetthat is not avowel. Consonants arepronouncedbystoppingtheairfromflowingeasilythrough themouth,especiallybyclosingthelipsortouchingtheteethwith thetongue.
辅音；辅音字母
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vowel
Examples
  • Don't youhatethe way shespeaks,pronouncingeachsingleconsonant soprecisely.
  • She's got someunpronounceablenamethatseemsto be all consonants.
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(Definition ofconsonantfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)
Examples from literature
  • Double consonants followed by a vowel must be pronounced really double, as in Italian.
  • Several initial consonants of words and syllables are commonly interchanged, even by the same speaker if he uses a word more than once during a conversation.
  • The speaker, therefore, will exercise the greatest care in pronouncing consonants distinctly.
  • Under what condition is a consonant never doubled at the end of a word?

consonant| American Dictionary

consonant
noun[C]
us
/ˈkɑn·sə·nənt/
grammar
aspeechsoundproducedbyhumanbeingswhen thebreaththatflowsout through themouthisblockedby theteeth,tongue, orlips
grammar
A consonant is also aletterthatrepresentsasoundproducedin this way:
Except for thevowelsinEnglish– a, e, i, o, u, and sometimes y – all thelettersare consonants.
(Definition ofconsonantfrom theCambridge Academic Content Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofconsonant

consonant
Moreover,consonantsubstitutions preserved more articulatory-phonetic features in nonword repetition than in serial recall.
From theCambridge English Corpus
If the final syllable does not have a long vowel or end in two or more consonants, the initial syllable is stressed.
From theCambridge English Corpus
If there is no such syllable, the syllable with a single codaconsonantis stressed.
From theCambridge English Corpus
However, aspirated consonants were not significantly different between the two speech styles.
From theCambridge English Corpus
The majority of nasal consonants were produced as singleton (non-geminates) in both speech styles.
From theCambridge English Corpus
Point-to-point intra-rater and inter-rater reliability (by a person trained in phonetics) checks on initial consonants were conducted on 10 % of the data.
From theCambridge English Corpus
One can find a detailed discussion of various assimilatory processes targeting consonants such as palatalization, nasalization and voicing.
From theCambridge English Corpus
The co-occurrence of identical consonants thus presents the limiting case of a more general stochastic constraint on perceived similarity.
From theCambridge English Corpus
For example, variables based on place and manner of articulation applied only to 0t,d0 tokens adjacent to aconsonant.
From theCambridge English Corpus
They are words that have partial or complete reduplication of consonants and\\or vowels and do not contain anyconsonantclusters.
From theCambridge English Corpus
While failure to detect liaison consonants may seem attributable to higher-level factors, partial evidence was found for both autosegmental and exemplar-based models of phonology.
From theCambridge English Corpus
The change in the rating procedure makes it possible to assess the generality of the restrictions on identical consonants.
From theCambridge English Corpus
Conversely, the identity hypothesis makes it possible to dissociate the acceptability of identical consonants from their similarity.
From theCambridge English Corpus
Some languages not only allow for word-final consonants but command their presence.
From theCambridge English Corpus
On those the majority preferred singleconsonantspellings for the first, fourth and seventh, and double consonants for the rest.
From theCambridge English Corpus
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