vocalic
Alliteration is the repetition of a consonantal sound or sounds, while assonance is the repetition of a vowel sound.
Russian past tense verbs agreeing with feminine and neuter nouns end in vowels, while past tense verbs agreeing with masculine nouns have a consonantal ending.
Hebrew orthography is generally consonantal, with the vowels represented by a special system of diacritics.

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Linguistics: phonology & phonetics
accommodation
alliterative
alveolar
apheresis
aphesis
assonance
diphthong
homonym
intrusive
labial
labialize
labiodental
lateral
postconsonantal
retroflex
retroflexion
rhotic
rhyme
unpronounceable
unrepeatable

Examples of consonantal

consonantal
In such texts, only the consonantal skeleton is fully represented; representation of vowels is partial and inconsistent.
The shor tened form marks a respective vocalic or consonantal element stemming from the source syllables.
Finally, there are two additional but limited kinds of consonantal off-rhymes.
Understanding geminates : the evolution of consonantal length contrasts.
Their sound system, however, is extremely impoverished, consisting of a severely reduced consonantal repertoire.
However, the database in this case is considerably more limited than that available for consonantal acquisition.
However, this stipulation weakens the case for consonantal syllables, in that they differ from other syllables in their inability to bear stress.
Those cases can be analysed with either consonantal correspondence or aggressive reduplication.
He proposed that vocalic elements project a mora at two levels and consonantal elements project a mora at only one level in some languages.
This, however, is not likely to be the case, given what we have learned about the restrictions of consonantal patterning.
In full rhymes, all of the features of the sounds in a syllable's vocalic nucleus and any following consonantal coda are the same.
The consonantal cluster is made of three elements in picture and only of two in actor.
Productions in this category matched at least part of the word's consonantal structure.
The current findings are consistent then with local consonantal retraction, but not nonlocal retraction over oral consonants.
Such rimes are composed of the vocalic 'nucleus' and a possible consonantal 'coda'.
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