You will remember that consonant sounds are made by creating a brief barrier to the flow of breath.

To see what you cannot hear, particularly consonant sounds, improves speech reception wonderfully.

Lattimore is alert to Homer's effects, particularly his play with consonant sounds.

The form a is used in the environment before a word beginning with a consonant sound.

Dutch for instance has far more vowels and consonant sounds which meant people literally ran out of letters.

Where the next word begins with a consonant sound, a is used.

Alliteration is the repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of words.

They also may begin to use a wider range of consonant sounds and tones of voice.

The following table includes all the consonant sounds found in the Nooksack language.

Even some single words can be alliterative, if they have multiple syllables which begin with the same consonant sound.