vowel

Examples

Don't you hate the way she speaks, pronouncing each single consonant so precisely.
She's got some unpronounceable name that seems to be all consonants.

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Linguistics: phonology & phonetics
accommodation
alliterative
alveolar
apheresis
aphesis
assonance
diphthong
intrusive
labial
labialize
labiodental
mispronounce
postalveolar
postconsonantal
retroflex
retroflexion
rhotic
the International Phonetic Alphabet
unpronounceable
unrepeatable

Examples from literature

Double consonants followed by a vowel must be pronounced really double, as in Italian. 
Several initial consonants of words and syllables are commonly interchanged, even by the same speaker if he uses a word more than once during a conversation. 
The speaker, therefore, will exercise the greatest care in pronouncing consonants distinctly. 
Under what condition is a consonant never doubled at the end of a word? 

consonant | American Dictionary

consonant
noun[ C ]
us/ˈkɑn·sə·nənt/
grammar
a speech sound produced by human beings when the breath that flows out through the mouth is blocked by the teeth, tongue, or lips
grammar
A consonant is also a letter that represents a sound produced in this way:
Except for the vowels in English – a, e, i, o, u, and sometimes y – all the letters are consonants.

Examples of consonant

consonant
Moreover, consonant substitutions preserved more articulatory-phonetic features in nonword repetition than in serial recall.
If the final syllable does not have a long vowel or end in two or more consonants, the initial syllable is stressed.
If there is no such syllable, the syllable with a single coda consonant is stressed.
However, aspirated consonants were not significantly different between the two speech styles.
The majority of nasal consonants were produced as singleton (non-geminates) in both speech styles.
Point-to-point intra-rater and inter-rater reliability (by a person trained in phonetics) checks on initial consonants were conducted on 10 % of the data.
One can find a detailed discussion of various assimilatory processes targeting consonants such as palatalization, nasalization and voicing.
The co-occurrence of identical consonants thus presents the limiting case of a more general stochastic constraint on perceived similarity.
For example, variables based on place and manner of articulation applied only to 0t,d0 tokens adjacent to a consonant.
They are words that have partial or complete reduplication of consonants and\\or vowels and do not contain any consonant clusters.
While failure to detect liaison consonants may seem attributable to higher-level factors, partial evidence was found for both autosegmental and exemplar-based models of phonology.
The change in the rating procedure makes it possible to assess the generality of the restrictions on identical consonants.
Conversely, the identity hypothesis makes it possible to dissociate the acceptability of identical consonants from their similarity.
Some languages not only allow for word-final consonants but command their presence.
On those the majority preferred single consonant spellings for the first, fourth and seventh, and double consonants for the rest.
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