单词 | point-consonant |
释义 | > as lemmaspoint-consonant point-consonant n. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > linguistics > study of speech sound > speech sound > speech sound by place or organ > [noun] > lingual > by parts of tongue blade-consonant1877 point-consonant1888 blade-point1890 fan consonant1902 apical1964 dorsal1964 1867 A. M. Bell Visible Speech: Sci. Universal Alphabetics 61 The ‘shut’ consonants are sufficiently distinguished..by the four radical varieties ‘Back’, ‘Front’, ‘Point’, ‘Lip’.] 1888 H. Sweet Hist. Eng. Sounds (new ed.) §11 Point consonants admit of inversion..and protrusion. 1942 J. E. B. Gover et al. Place-names Middlesex 109 Those with d are due to confusion between the point-consonants l and d. 2003 Re: Can't believe Ears in rec.music.opera (Usenet newsgroup) 12 Nov. Feeling she [sc. an opera singer] lacks the size and ‘bloom’ for that role in a huge house, and that she's dull and too inclined to vocalize rather than form clear vowels and point consonants are defensible criticisms. < as lemmas |
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