Questions tagged [consonants]
a speech sound that is articulated with complete or partial closure of the vocal tract.
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Has the development of double consonants in Latin been studied?
When one studies both Latin and Greek, one of the most prominent differences between the two is the much greater number of double consonants in Latin. While Greek does have some instances of them, ...
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Does [t] become [g] due to anticipatory assimilation?
In this particular rule [t] -> [g]/_ V [+velar] (because of anticipatory assimilation)
I'm unsure of how to actually write this in the most efficient way.
I want to know that if [t] changes to [g] ...
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Any online recording of [ʀ̆]?
Strangely, the the Wikipedia page doesn't contain any recording for it (usually it has a recording for each consonant or vowel).
Background: I'm a native Hebrew speaker who's interested in ...
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What is the difference between an ejective consonant and a sequence of consonant + glottal stop?
Is it just the simultaneousness?
Also - can a sequence of say uvular stop and glottal stop become - diachronically - an uvular ejective?
Thanks :))
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How can I distinguish different consonants in Praat/acoustic analysis?
How can I distinguish different consonants based on acoustic information/spectrographic analysis such as in Praat? Is there a list of acoustic cues for different consonants like there is for average ...
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A language without consonants
I know that Rotokas language has fewer consonants than most (all?) languages. But I haven't been able to find a language that has no consonants (whether phonemic or phonetic). Does such a language ...
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Is there a standard(-ish) definition of affricate aspiration/VOT?
Is the frication of an affricate considered part of its aspiration? Or does the aspiration start at the end of the frication?
And does voice onset time (VOT) measure aspiration (as defined by the ...
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Uvular Fricative Trill vs Uvular Fricative vs Preuvular Fricative
I'm having trouble differentiating the uvular trill, uvular, and preuvular fricatives.
While I understand that the preuvular variant is more fronted, it sounds to me like many acclaimed uvular ...
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What is the difference between double articulations and secondary articulators?
I need to know the examples that makes secondary articulators and double articulations different.
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What's with an j/w alternation in some PIE pronouns?
There's a seeming alternation between *j (IEist notation *y) and *w in the PIE 2nd person pronoun (such as between *tewe and *toy) and in the reflexive pronoun (such as between *sewe and *soy). What's ...
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Modifications of consonants
Could you help me to figure out one thing?
My task is to comment on the modifications of consonants by the neighbouring sounds(assimilation,ellision). But there are some words in the task where I don'...
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Glottal or Stop /v/?
I am an amateur in linguistics. I was listening to three different British RP pronunciations of the word "massive".
https://www.google.com/search?q=pronounce+massive (Make sure to select ...
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The possible sound change when /t/ sound is preceded by fricatives or affricatives
Here, I am talking about the assimilated /t/ sound that is one of the most common features of Standard Southern British English (such as /t/ at the beginning of a syllable, time, task, Twitter, twice, ...
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Vowel Change in Europe Book
Perhaps a rogue question but my father loves languages and when on holiday in Holland was trying to tell me about the two vowel (or constant? Shifts) changes that occured, and so why English and ...
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Has a sound change ever happened that voiced only stops in between vowels and not fricatives?
Has this ever happened? Can it happen? I'm a novice in linguistics and I'm trying to study sound changes.
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