Encyclopedia results for Obstruent

1. Obstruent
   
   classes, obstruents and sonorant s. An obstruent is a consonant sound formed by obstructing outward ... isbn 0 521 26536 3 SOWL ling stub Category Phonology de Obstruent eo Obstruanto fr Consonne constrictive ..
   
   
   
   
2. Alveolar obstruent
   
   Alveolar obstruent s in linguistics are the phonetic natural class consisting of t , d , s , z Category Alveolar consonants phonetics stub ..
   
   
   
   
3. Final obstruent devoicing
   
   nofootnotes Sound change Final obstruent devoicing or terminal devoicing is a systematic phonology phonological ... language Polish , and Russian language Russian , among others. In these languages, voiced obstruent ..
   
   
   
   
4. Continuant
   
   topics sonorant obstruent schwa Category Phonetics phonetics stub lv Kontinuants nn kontinuant zh ? ..
   
   
   
   
5. Devoicing
   
   is final obstruent devoicing a systematic phonological process occurring in languages such as German ... , among others. In these languages, voiced obstruent s in the syllable coda or at the end of a word ..
   
   
   
   
6. Emphatic consonant
   
   to describe one of a series of obstruent consonant s which originally contrasted with series of both voiced and voiceless obstruent s. In specific Semitic languages the members of this series may be realized ..
   
   
   
   
7. Liquid consonant
   
   be divided into lateral consonant lateral liquids and rhotic consonant rhotics . Obstruent laterals ... of as liquids but do not have their high sonority hierarchy sonority . Nor can obstruent laterals ..
   
   
   
   
8. Voiceless
   
   voice modally voiced pairs of consonants the obstruent s , such as IPA p b , t d , k g , q ? f ... elsewhere, such as at the beginning or end of the word or next to another obstruent. Usually ..
   
   
   
   
9. Rz (digraph)
   
   to devoice to sz digraph sz in order to ease pronunciation. It also devoices at the final obstruent ..
   
   
   
   
10. D? (digraph)
    
    d ? , the voiced alveolo palatal affricate . Polish In Polish it is sometimes Final obstruent devoicing ..
    
    
    
    
11. Preaspiration
    
    preceding the closure of a voiceless obstruent , ref name helg cite web url http www.anst.uu.se ... Uppsala University ref basically equivalent to an IPA h like sound preceding the obstruent. In other ..
    
    
    
    
12. Rendaku
    
    obstruent . This was later modified to state that rendaku does not occur when the second element of the compound contains a voiced obstruent in any position see third example below . This is considered ..
    
    
    
    
13. Syllable nucleus
    
    language Nuxalk and some dialects of Berber languages Berber , which have some obstruent ..
    
    
    
    
14. Voiced alveolar lateral affricate
    
    . It is often spelled dl , though in the Zulu language , one of the few Old World languages with obstruent ..
    
    
    
    
15. Sonority hierarchy
    
    consonant plosives rowspan 2 Obstruent s rowspan 4 Consonant s Fricative consonant fricatives Nasal ..
    
    
    
    
16. Syllabic consonant
    
    also has long versions of these syllabic consonants, ? and ? k?b joint , v?ba willow The only time obstruent ..
    
    
    
    
17. Proto-Turkic language
    
    . The consonant system had a two way contrast of obstruent s fortis vs. lenis , k, p, t vs. g ..
    
    
    
    
18. Voice (phonetics)
    
    of these obstruent s has an unvoiced counterpart, p,t,k,f,s . The classification is useful for describing ... and voiced obstruent consonants given above, other voiced sounds in English are the nasal ..
    
    
    
    
19. Pennsylvania Dutch English
    
    voice phonetics devoicing of obstruent s. The use of certain vowel variants in specific phonology ..
    
    
    
    
20. Sonorant
    
    , this usage is becoming dated. Sonorants contrast with obstruent s, which do cause turbulence ..
    
    
    
    
21. Fortition
    
    IPA l , which are usually source from combinations of IPA l with a voiceless obstruent . The product ..
    
    
    
    
22. Xiang Chinese
    
    because some of its languages still exhibit the three way distinction of Middle Chinese obstruent .... Old Xiang, aside from having preserved the Middle Chinese obstruent s, is also spoken in the southern ..
    
    
    
    
23. Benjamin Smith Lyman
    
    rendaku of the initial obstruent of the second word in a compound is that the word contain no voiced obstruent in a later syllable. A sufficient condition for predicting rendaku is not known. This constraint ..
    
    
    
    
24. Korean phonology
    
    of IPA ? or IPA i , as IPA k?x? and IPA k??i . All obstruent s plosives, affricates, fricatives are Unreleased ... to IPA t IPA t . If there is a following plain obstruent IPA nowiki nowiki p, t, t?, s, k ..
    
    
    
    
25. Morphophonology
    
    that ends in a d appears without a following vowel, the d becomes t final obstruent devoicing , and that is reflected ..
    
    
    
    

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