In phonetics, a continuant is a speech sound produced without a complete closure in the oral cavity. By one definition, continuant is a distinctive feature...

Ladefoged coined the term approximant in the 1960s, the terms frictionless continuant and semivowel were used to refer to non-lateral approximants. In phonology...

In algebra, the continuant is a multivariate polynomial representing the determinant of a tridiagonal matrix and having applications in continued fractions...

This article contains phonetic transcriptions in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA). For an introductory guide on IPA symbols, see Help:IPA. For...

specification of two binary features: [-continuant] and [-voice]. Any sound with both the feature [-continuant] (not able to be pronounced continuously)...

} The determinant of a tridiagonal matrix is given by the continuant of its elements. An orthogonal transformation of a symmetric (or Hermitian)...

moments in a continuant’s spacetime career, i.e., there are as many objects as there are stages of a continuant’s existence; e.g., with a continuant like an...

different vowels to be distinguished from ⟨C⟩) and the names of the continuants consisted as a rule either of the bare sound, or the sound preceded by...

/__[C][+cont] = "A preconsonantal voiceless non-continuant (voiceless stop) changed into corresponding a voiceless continuant (fricative) in Proto-Iranian (PIr.)"...

way to termination. graduated continuant - Modeled on sustained sounds. The onset is graduated, settling into a continuant phase which eventually closes...

Arabic and Persian rather than by Sanskrit or by English. The retroflex continuant zha of the literary dialect is realised in the Muslim dialect as the palatal...

between three manners of articulation is not generally reconstructed for continuant obstruents (such as fricatives), which are generally reconstructed as...

modern Spanish, both are pronounced [β] (bilabial v) after a vowel (or continuant) and [b] otherwise (such as after a pause). There is also a difference...

the vowel not found in the other ejective affricates. Continuants Navajo voiceless continuants are realized as fricatives. They are typically noisier...

some of the airflow must escape through the mouth), frictionless and continuant. There is no significant build-up of air pressure at any point above the...

Consonant phonemes Labial Dental Alveolar Palatal Velar Nasal m n ɲ Stop p b t d tʃ ʝ k ɡ Continuant f θ* s (ʃ) x Lateral l ʎ* Flap ɾ Trill r...

nasal and a continuant or sonorant. The place of articulation is inherited from the nasal before it and the voicing from the continuant or sonorant that...

features across languages. For example, [l] could be classified as a continuant or not in a given language depending on how it patterns with other consonants...

followed by a vowel or syllabic /l/. List of phonetics topics Obstruent Continuant Liquid consonant Keith Brown & Jim Miller (2013) The Cambridge Dictionary...

Voiced stops become lenited to approximants in syllable onsets, after continuants: /b/ > [β], /d/ > [ð], /ɡ/ > [ɣ]. Exceptions include /d/ after lateral...

Latin was er (/ɛr/), following the pattern of other letters representing continuants, such as ⟨F⟩, ⟨L⟩, ⟨M⟩, ⟨N⟩, and ⟨S⟩. This name is preserved in French...

closures. Geminate fricatives, nasals, and /l/ are realized as lengthened continuants. There is only one vibrant phoneme /r/ but the actual pronunciation depends...

transcribed by adding a diacritic or modifier letter to the IPA symbols above. Continuant (the opposite of a stop) List of phonetics topics Pop filter Nonexplosive...

University: "L'université catholique de Louvain ne peut être considérée comme continuant l'ancienne université de Louvain; et lorsqu'un acte de fondation a désigné...

BFO is based on a division of entities into two disjoint categories of continuant and occurrent, the former consists of objects and spatial regions, the...

voiceless. The /l/ and /r/ are voiced between vowels or before /ʔ/ or continuants. However, they are voiceless before voiceless consonants except /ʔ/ or...

possible'. If the glottalized continuant is followed by a vowel, it is released and the release repeats the continuant so that it can be said to act like...

'l' (which are both 'voiced continuants') but 'l', a 'voiced continuant', cannot rhyme with 'ph', a 'voiceless continuant'. Furthermore, "for perfect...

or nasal and are not changed. When a nasal CV suffix occurs and C is a continuant or a vibrant /r/, regressive nasalization is undergone by the preceding...

approximant (or fricative) [β̞] (or [β]) in betacist dialects, after a continuant, i.e. a vowel or any type of consonant other than a stop or nasal (e.g...