liquid consonant

His voice was deep, but its curiously liquid consonants gave it an almost musical lilt.

It sounded beautiful in her coarse mouth, the melting vowels and liquid consonants.

The supple vowels and liquid consonants did not seem to rise easily to his lips.

Occasional interchange of the liquid consonants l/r.

Ramirez's accent differed from most of the Manticorans Matthews had heard, with liquid consonants that were oddly musical in such a massive man.

In general, only liquid consonants may occur as C₂, while only nasals occur in the C₃ position.

This richness in liquid consonants in a sense compensates for the small vowel inventories and lack of fricatives of Aboriginal languages.

Opera was peculiarly suited to the Italian genius: its sense of drama, its intense musicality, its language rich in broad open vowels and liquid consonants.

In fact, Czech has two syllabic liquid consonants, the other being syllabic l, as well as syllabic bilabial nasal 'm'.

In phonetics, liquids or liquid consonants are a class of consonants consisting of lateral consonants together with rhotics.

Apart from the liquid consonants, this pattern may indicate a phonological change in Later Egyptian leading to a neutralization of voiced alveolar and velar plosives.

Moreover, most of the characters' names contain liquid consonants: Pelléas, Mélisande, Arkël, Golaud, Yniold.

This spelling was convenient because these languages do not have non-lateral liquid consonants, and guttural realizations of r have become common in various languages of European origin.

However, the liquid consonants /r/ and /l/ can form syllable nuclei in West and South Slavic languages and behave phonologically as vowels in this case.

Slavic liquid metathesis refers to the historical phenomenon of metathesis of liquid consonants occurring in the Common Slavic period in the South Slavic and Czecho-Slovak area.

Metathesis of liquid consonants is an important historical change during the development of the Slavic languages: a syllable-final liquid metathesized to become syllable-initial, therefore e.g. Polish mleko vs. English milk.

Through time, evidence was announced regarding similar alternations of syllabicity in the nasal and liquid consonants, though the evidence is extremely poor for these, despite the fact that such alternations would have left permanent, indeed irreversible, traces.

Ms. Anderson, ageless and elfin and somehow maternal, delivers her texts with the lilt of bedtime stories, with liquid consonants and a soothing, even rhythm that washes away the rough edges of what she is saying.

This name would have preceded the Lycian language name Pinara, derived from the form "Pilleñni" or "Pinale" meaning a "round hill" or simply "round", based on a hypothesis of interchange of liquid consonants.

The application of the law of open syllables for such clusters differed amongst the already differentiated Slavic dialects, but characteristically manifested in a number of dialects as the metathesis of liquid consonants, and is therefore called the "'liquid metathesis"'.

Macedonian possesses five vowels, one semivowel, three liquid consonants, three nasal stops, three pairs of fricatives, two pairs of affricates, a non-paired voiceless fricative, nine pairs of voiced and unvoiced consonants and four pairs of stops.

In phonetics, rhotic consonants, also called tremulants or "R-like" sounds, are liquid consonants that are traditionally represented orthographically by symbols derived from the Greek letter rho, including R , r from the Latin script and Р , p from the Cyrillic script.