| 单词 | consonantal |
| 例句 | The writing was no longer an ambiguous syllabary mixed with logograms but an alphabet borrowed from the Phoenician consonantal alphabet and improved by the Greek invention of vowels. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z But this is not to say that K — as U.S. headline writers shortened his rather unwieldy and consonantal name — didn’t do some sight-seeing in the Washington area. Mutual assured distraction: Remembering Khrushchev’s 1959 U.s. tour It gave him not so much a lisp as a consonantal slurp, making gibberish out of his sweet nothings, but talking was never the main thing between them. Robert Coover: “The Frog Prince.” 2014-01-20T05:00:00Z The consonantal text sometimes betrays these in spite of the Massorah. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 2 "Hearing" to "Helmond" 2012-04-25T02:00:53.567Z The vowel assonance was after a time completed by the addition of consonantal assonance and then the invention of rhyme was completed. The Thirteenth Greatest of Centuries 2012-01-28T03:00:21.937Z Is here the consonantal complement of as, the preceding hieroglyph. Cleopatra's Needle A History of the London Obelisk, with an Exposition of the Hieroglyphics 2011-10-19T02:00:21.933Z Now, there is only one set of features common to all languages; and this comprises the combinations of vowel and consonantal sounds, which go to constitute what we know as articulate syllables. Darwin, and After Darwin, Volume 2 Post-Darwinian Questions: Heredity and Utility 2011-10-16T02:00:14.153Z And yet it would be hard to find in the whole of Europe a more musical tongue than that which is represented by the uncouth consonantal syllables. Wild Wales The People, Laguage & Scenery 2011-10-09T02:00:29.740Z He, too, could woo discordant sounds to harmony, and wove the consonantal Dutch into mellow meshes of ensnaring sound. Vondel's Lucifer 2011-10-09T02:00:28.557Z And one might without knowing French recognise the poetical intention of many of these poems merely by listening to their consonantal music, nay, often by looking at their typographical arrangement. ?mile Verhaeren 2011-02-26T03:00:52.147Z More important are those passages in which the Massoretes have definitely adopted a variation from the consonantal text. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Slice 7 "Bible" to "Bisectrix" 2010-12-20T17:12:05.780Z The Irish elaborated a peculiar system of consonantal correspondence which counted as rhyme. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 5 "Cat" to "Celt" The Egyptian system of writing, as opposed to the Coptic, showed only the consonantal skeletons of words: it could not record internal vowel-changes; and semi-consonants, even when radicals, were often omitted in writing. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 1 "Edwardes" to "Ehrenbreitstein" It is unquestionably true that the selection of sounds, whether vowel or consonantal, has much to do with the melodious effect of very much poetry. English Verse Specimens Illustrating its Principles and History Here the rime is in the vowel-sound; the consonantal endings differ. The Lay of Havelok the Dane This has almost entirely disappeared, and the chief consonantal variation which exists is perhaps the change of th to f or v, as in “fing” for thing, or “favver” for father. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 6 "Cockaigne" to "Columbus, Christopher" There is nothing corresponding to this consonantal mutation in Goidelic. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 5 "Cat" to "Celt" Again, all consonantal endings in t and k, such as survive in Cantonese and other dialects, have entirely disappeared from Pekingese, and n and ng are the only final consonants remaining. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 2 "Chicago, University of" to "Chiton" In general, prolonged consonantal sounds seem to be avoided, as in the case of vowels. English Verse Specimens Illustrating its Principles and History A may be used before o and u if the sound is really consonantal as in such a one, a use, a utility. Word Study and English Grammar A Primer of Information about Words, Their Relations and Their Uses III., the Emperor Claudius invented a new character to represent the consonantal sound of v as distinguished from the vowel sound. Latin Pronunciation A Short Exposition of the Roman Method The living speech is further characterized by innumerable cases of consonantal metathesis and by parasitic nasalization. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 5 "Cat" to "Celt" It lacks the consonantal elements, the characteristic of articulation. Man And His Ancestor A Study In Evolution Yet we cannot doubt that two or three consonants require more time than one, and in words like strength, flushed, fists, and the like, every one would find the consonantal length perceptible. English Verse Specimens Illustrating its Principles and History A which is used before consonantal sounds and an which is used before vowel sounds are called indefinite articles because they individualize without specializing. Word Study and English Grammar A Primer of Information about Words, Their Relations and Their Uses Chest, jest.—Here we have compound consonantal sounds. A Handbook of the English Language In Late Latin there was a tendency to this spirant pronunciation which appears as early as the beginning of the 2nd century A.D.; by the 3rd century b and consonantal u are inextricably confused. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 1 "Austria, Lower" to "Bacon" The laws of consonantal change in many cases produce the same result as Grimm's law, but the laws themselves are entirely different. The Dakotan Languages, and Their Relations to Other Languages His statement that "quantity in fact, in spoken verse, consists of stress and of the consonantal total of syllables," may be regarded as much more satisfactory than those already quoted from his essay. English Verse Specimens Illustrating its Principles and History Having once passed it in, I find 'You that leap besprinkling the rock stream-rent,' with its delicate labial pause and its delicate consonantal chime, one of the most fascinating lines in the stanza. From a Cornish Window A New Edition If from the word fate I separate the final consonantal sound, the syllable fa remains. A Handbook of the English Language Combinations of Consonants.—There are a few consonantal combinations which offer a slight difficulty to English beginners, viz., gv, kn, kv, sc. Esperanto Self-Taught with Phonetic Pronunciation Articulate with energy the final consonantal combinations of all such words as: England's, burns, speaks, inscrolled, floated, hearts, dashed, leaped, unblest, strength, dazzled, unfurled, blended. The Ontario High School Reader All other consonantal stems are generally put together under the general heading, ‘Minor Declensions’. A Middle High German Primer Third Edition Articulation, which is the pronunciation of a consonantal sound, is accomplished by interrupting 109 the air-current, whether vibratory or not, at certain points. The Child-Voice in Singing treated from a physiological and a practical standpoint and especially adapted to schools and boy choirs To the following point of structure in the consonantal sounds the reader's attention is particularly directed. A Handbook of the English Language Consonance, specifically, in metrics, a form of incomplete rime in which the consonantal sounds agree but the vowel sounds differ, 166 f. The Principles of English Versification Or else we put in the wrong consonants, which is shown by the fact that different nations assign different consonantal sounds to the same bird. The Patient Observer And His Friends Powers speaks of the language as “hopelessly consonantal, harsh, and sesquipedalian,” * * * “utterly unlike the sweet and simple 98 languages of the Sacramento.” Indian Linguistic Families Of America, North Of Mexico Seventh Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1885-1886, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1891, pages 1-142 Care must be taken that the vocal alone be heard; there must be no consonantal sound, and no vocal sound other than the one intended. McGuffey's Sixth Eclectic Reader Wrong enunciation is the incomplete utterance of a syllable or a word, the sound omitted or added being usually consonantal. The Art of Public Speaking The consonantal u was sounded like the v of modern English, 2. Society for Pure English Tract 4 The Pronunciation of English Words Derived from the Latin A free, flexible articulation of the consonantal sounds helps to place the voice, and gives it life and freedom. The Renaissance of the Vocal Art Some of these grammatical processes, like suffixing, are exceedingly wide-spread; others, like vocalic change, are less common but far from rare; still others, like accent and consonantal change, are somewhat exceptional as functional processes. Language An Introduction to the Study of Speech This harmonious versification was replaced in the seventeenth century by a system in which account was no longer taken of consonantal rhyme or of the number of syllables. The Glories of Ireland If we may judge of this family of dialects by Mackenzie's vocabulary of the Chippewayan, it is very remote from the Chippewa, and abounds in those consonantal sounds which the latter studiously avoids. Personal Memoirs of a Residence of Thirty Years with the Indian Tribes on the American Frontiers The g before front vowels had a sound closely resembling that of the Latin consonantal i. Society for Pure English Tract 4 The Pronunciation of English Words Derived from the Latin As, under this system, we never locally influence vowel form, so, after a certain stage of study we never locally influence consonantal action. The Renaissance of the Vocal Art There are four main types of articulation generally recognized within the consonantal group of sounds. Language An Introduction to the Study of Speech In 1878 he constructed a phonograph from the newspaper reports of this new invention, and lectured on it at a bazaar in Edinburgh, then employed it to study the nature of vowel and consonantal sounds. Heroes of the Telegraph In The Beaver Coat the various gradations of that dialect are scrupulously set down, from the impudent vulgarity of Leontine and Adelaide, to the occasional consonantal slips of Wehrhahn. The Dramatic Works of Gerhart Hauptmann Volume I In the present compendium the chief points of divergence from the general American understanding of the ‘Roman’ method are in respect of the diphthong ae and the consonantal u. The Roman Pronunciation of Latin Why we use it and how to use it Almost any first-class work on the elements of the English language will give the divisions and the location of the consonantal sounds. The Renaissance of the Vocal Art A subsidiary but by no means unimportant grammatical process is that of internal vocalic or consonantal change. Language An Introduction to the Study of Speech It may then be reduced almost wholly to vowel sounds, and from the lips of some speakers it is really no more consonantal than if it came from the beaks of birds. Familiar Spanish Travels To a present-day reader the verse sounds crude, the more so because of the harshly consonantal character of the Anglo-Saxon language; and in comparison with modern poetry it is undoubtedly unmelodious. A History of English Literature Why did they not turn it off with the simple explanation which they give to the consonantal i—that of double i? The Roman Pronunciation of Latin Why we use it and how to use it The student of the voice should study, understand, and practically train the action of these three points or places of articulation; for at these three points, with a few exceptions, all consonantal sounds are made. The Renaissance of the Vocal Art Only the latter is a true illustration of consonantal modification as a grammatical process. Language An Introduction to the Study of Speech The Greeks converted the Phœnician alphabet, which was partly consonantal, into one purely phonetic--"a perfect instrument for the expression of spoken language." Atlantis : the antediluvian world Yet as regards the consonantal sounds he had exhausted the resources of the Semitic tongue. A History of Science — Volume 1 Scientists have contended that the consonantal sounds weaken the resonance and power of the vowels. The Renaissance of the Vocal Art The study of consonantal sounds without the use of vowel sounds is very indefinite and unsatisfactory. The Renaissance of the Vocal Art The positions grade into each other, but each language selects a limited number of clearly defined positions as characteristic of its consonantal system, ignoring transitional or extreme positions. Language An Introduction to the Study of Speech We have found that the consonantal sounds in many ways are a wonderful help in developing the voice. The Renaissance of the Vocal Art Let us take for consideration the consonantal sound represented by the letter b. A History of Science — Volume 1 A consonantal sound, on the other hand, is the result of a complete obstruction and explosion, of a partial obstruction and explosion, or of a partial obstruction only. The Renaissance of the Vocal Art Analyze all the consonantal elements of the sentence. The Renaissance of the Vocal Art There are also special quantitative processes, like vocalic lengthening or shortening and consonantal doubling, but these may be looked upon as particular sub-types of the process of internal modification. Language An Introduction to the Study of Speech Exaggerate the consonantal sounds in every instance, and the points of contact or places of articulation will be very evident. The Renaissance of the Vocal Art But this is not the end, for other consonantal sounds may be associated in the syllables in such combinations as bad, bed, bar, bark, cab, etc. A History of Science — Volume 1 While of course it is not possible to sing the consonantal sounds, a beautiful effect is often the result of playing upon the consonant rhythmically, with the movement of the song. The Renaissance of the Vocal Art Devices.—The development of the consonantal sounds through the study of the three points or places of articulation, and the application by the use of words, sentences, and sentiment, vitalized and intensified. The Renaissance of the Vocal Art Naturally these consonantal sequences are merely abstracted from the actual forms. Language An Introduction to the Study of Speech Perhaps as remarkable as these Irish phenomena are the consonantal interchanges of Ful, an African language of the Soudan. Language An Introduction to the Study of Speech It seemed to him sufficient to use one symbol for each consonantal sound. A History of Science — Volume 1 Footnote 40: Some of the Berber languages allow consonantal combinations that seem unpronounceable to us. Language An Introduction to the Study of Speech |
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