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Liquid consonant - Definition and Overview |
| Related Words: Affirmative, Allophone, Alveolar, Apical, Articulation, Aspiration, Assimilated, Assimilation, Automatic, Back, Balanced, Bilabial |
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Liquid consonants, or liquids, are speech sounds; more specifically, they are approximant consonants that are not classified as semivowels (glides) because they do not correspond phonetically to specific vowels (in the way that, for example,
the initial [j] in English yes corresponds to [i]).
The class of liquids can be divided into lateral liquids and rhotics.
English letters [l] and [ɹ] are typical liquids.
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Example Usage of consonant |
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comedybeard: RT @willhowells #threewordsaftersex consonant please, Carol. |
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CulturalSnow: RT @sam_burnett: RT @willhowells #threewordsaftersex consonant please, Carol. |
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sam_burnett: RT @willhowells #threewordsaftersex consonant please, Carol. |
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