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...d ''beo'' 'alive'. Such consonants also affect which of Irish's 15 or so [[vowel]]s may acceptably co-occur with them. ...t̪ˠəx] 'spent bog', primary stress falls on the first member. When a short vowel is unstressed, it generally surfaces as the [[schwa]] [ə], similar to the

It is only doubled in the middle of words, to keep the preceding vowel short: '''súmmer, slímmer, slímmed, slímming''' (cf. '''slím'''), '''d

...fect rhyme''' the two rhyming syllables have enough in common (usually the vowel sound) for the assonance to be recognisable without being identical.

...Although the spoken languages used by the drummers also had consonant and vowel-based "phonemes", the vowels and consonants proved unnecessary for the tran

...like the English ''ng'' in ''king''—or for the nasalization of a preceding vowel. The symbol is also used in several Latin-script transcriptions, such as th

...clúbber, Débbie, clúbbed, drúbbing''' - but not when written as a double vowel: '''doúble, troúble'''.

*additional H put at the front of words beginning with vowel sounds, as in 'good hevening'. The lengthening of the vowel sound in (for example) grass (from gras to gra:s) was a cockney innovation

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...ards the front or back of the mouth, i.e. /n/ surfaces as [ŋ] after a back vowel. [n], [ŋ] and [m] can be syllabic, usually in interjections. A single cons

...es in voicing, with [-s]. After a sibilant, an [[epenthesis|epenthetic]] [[vowel]] is inserted: in ''gases'', for instance, the plural is [-ɪz]. ...ot applied to new words, arguably the ''-en'' form or the alternation of a vowel do not constitute genuine plural markers. The sole productive form is ''-s'

...is, it does not use numerically-measured patterns of syllables, stresses, vowel lengths, etc.

'''Obama'''<ref>Pronounced [obama], with short [[vowel]]s; cf. Barack Obama's surname, [oʊbɑ:mə] in [[American English]].</ref>

...'''coêlacanth''' (all sêe-). For the hissing sound to remain before a back vowel, a cedilla is used in '''Bàrça''' (cf. '''Barcelôna''', where no cedilla '''ci''' before a vowel can have the '''sh''' sound: '''atrôcious''' (*atrôshəss), '''précious'

...[capital] letter B'.</ref> <C>, etc.) as well. Consonants are similar to [[vowel]]s in this regard, but different terminology is used to describe their [[ar

...lables. [[Semitic languages]] such as Arabic indicate consonants, but some vowel information is only optionally included. Most Chinese characters represent

...former was the lowercase form of the latter, and they represented both the vowel [u] and the semivowel [w]. '''u''' represents three back vowel sounds, one of which ('''û''') has a variant with an initial semivowel, so

'''l''' is single after a two-letter vowel: '''cråwl, foôl, rêal, fòul''' ''horrible'' = '''fòwl''' ''bird'', ''' ...nsonant to form a cluster without altering the long sound of the preceding vowel: '''âble, tâble, îdle, bûgle, nôble''' (cf. the double consonants in '

...h as [p], [f] and [s] involve an irregular wave, while sonorants such as [[vowel]]s and [[nasality|nasal]] [[consonant]]s are more regular. Obstruents which

...of sounds and signs in [[language]]. Typically, a syllable consists of a [[vowel]] and at least one [[consonant]], though various combinations are possible, ...les must have onsets.<ref>Although German has many words that begin with a vowel, phonetically a [[glottal stop]] is inserted to comply with this ''obligato

...l motivation in phonetic change: Dialect levelling outcomes for an English vowel shift'. ''Journal of Sociolinguistics'' 8(1): 23-53.