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...long-short). A syllable is long if it contains a long vowel or ends with a consonant. If two consosnants occur between two vowels then usually they are regarded

'''nécessary''': the stressed syllable is before the single consonant

'''c''' begins consonant clusters: '''accépt''' (x sound, while '''accŏrd''' has no cluster, only

...e'''x'''am'' in the prefix ''ex-'' before a vowel <br>- '''''s''''' before consonant || [ks/ts], [gz/dz], [s], [z] * A nasal consonant such as ''n, m'' can nasalize more or less a previous vowel, at the end of

...stand in small integer ratios (e.g. octave, 2:1; perfect fifths, 3:2) form consonant intervals, and elicit more positive affective responses than pitches whose

...onetic reversal of the lyrics does not produce the correct [[vowel]] and [[consonant]] sounds for the phrase in question. So unless one believes that the messag

...hen avoids an accidental -ss- in '''bús-stóp''', as it does an unfortunate consonant clash in the prefixed word '''mís-hít'''. In '''nô-òne''' and '''prê-

* Many consonant sounds are written with single or double letters, such as [v] (''β/ββ'')

...in British English can sound like *háff when emphasized before an unvoiced consonant: '''I''' *háff '''to sêe hím'''

...itten, not as a separate letter, but as a diacritical mark attached to the consonant (except a, which is the default). From the 19th century, Western scholars,

!y<ref>When not accented, '''y''' is usually the semi-consonant of '''yoû''' and '''yés'''.</ref> !w<ref>When not accented, '''w''' is usually the semi-consonant of '''wê''' and '''wíll'''.</ref>

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after a consonant, mostly -'''ỳ'''

...tionally, the weak form, *dhə, with the [[schwa]] sound, is heard before a consonant following in the next word, while the strong form, '''thê''', is used befo

...át, bárrier'''. It can actually be quite long, especially before a voiced consonant: '''drág, brág, sád, mád, jám, hám, bád''' ''evil'' = '''báde''' ''

...in the past. [[Phonology|Phonologically]], its 'sounds' consist mainly of consonant-vowel units that cannot be split up, such as ''bu'', ''ni'' and ''ka'', whi

...nguages differ from other Indo-European languages by the First or Germanic Consonant Shift (described as [[Grimm's Law]]). The common ancestor for the Germanic

...materialism and its cultural legacies... and to replace it with a science consonant with Christian and theistic convictions". The document planned scientific r

...arieties: [[American English]] (AmE), where '''r''' is pronounced before a consonant, and [[British English|British]] and [[Commonwealth English]] (BrE), where ...aw'' = '''scêne''' ''scenic, drama, crime''. The bullet (●) represents any consonant. An asterisk before a word indicates that it is a respelling to show pronun

...demonstrate this, so called “Neapolitan sixth chords” are used. These are consonant chords when played solitary, but which are added into a musical phrase of i

...Mâplethorpe: unusual flouting of [[English spellings#Double letters|double-consonant rule]] in person's name, cf. '''mâple''' ''tree'', '''mápping''' ''map

...on the ability of humans to ''sympathize'': Smith's self-interest is thus consonant with the notion of sympathy as used by fellow Enlightenment thinkers [[Will

'''an''' *ən: version of '''a''' before a consonant

'''camêllia''': irregular '''ê''' before double consonant, *camêlia, cf. '''chamaêleon''' *camêliən

...(i.e. no martyrdom), they've introduced a conception of tolerance entirely consonant with that of the entire world, where tolerance equals indifference, and tha

...ained before -'''able''' to show either the pronunciation of the preceding consonant or the long sound of the preceding vowel -'''eable

...rties based on Marxism-Leninism and proletarian internationalism, in a way consonant with the requirements of heart and reason.<ref>Ho's testament as read by Le

...ich we now espouse, and which Galen himself acknowledges in other respects consonant with reason, to have pointed to the aorta as the vessel which distributes t ...s but the great veins also be nearly emptied of their contents. It is only consonant with reason to conclude that in the course of the half hour hinted at, so m

...erivative endings. Nevertheless they are not Greek; their formation is not consonant with Greek usage. In Greek they said ''atheos'' and ''atheotes''; to these

...IPA|[ɹ]}} does not appear at the end of a syllable or immediately before a consonant; hence the pronunciation of the city as "New Yawk". There is no {{IPA|[ɹ]}