long consonant in a sentence
Examples
- It is not clear if strength makes the consonants long, or if during long consonants there is a greater opportunity for full articulation.
- There are very few languages that have initial consonant length; among them are spoken Italian, long consonants are produced between words by sandhi effects.
- A full analysis and description of the status of the long consonants is not available, and more than one analysis of Delaware consonants has been proposed.
- The weak grade of long consonants still triggers the weak grade on a preceding syllable, however, even though the consonant itself is no longer long.
- Long consonants are represented in writing as double consonants, and long vowels are written with a macron ( , , + , k ).
- The short monophthongs exhibit allophonic changes as well . and are raised to and respectively when followed by a long consonant, / i / becomes in closed syllables.
- It can usually be recognised that there is a short plosive in a closed syllable, implying that it must be the weak grade of an originally long consonant.
- The contrastive long consonants are described as having low functional yield, that is, they differentiate relatively few pairs of words, but nonetheless do occur in contrasting environments.
- A stressed syllable always contains either a long vowel or a long consonant ( like in Swedish, but unlike Standard Danish, where there are no long consonants ).
- A stressed syllable always contains either a long vowel or a long consonant ( like in Swedish, but unlike Standard Danish, where there are no long consonants ).