consonant 专八

Consonants are frequently assimilated to neighboring consonants.

音往往被其邻近的音同化。

The quality of this suit isn’t quite consonant with its price.

这套衣服的质量和价钱不相称。

Vowels possess greater sonority than consonants.

元音比音响亮。

A change that involves the insertion of a consonant or vowel sound to the middle of a word is known as epenthesis.

在一个词的中间嵌入一个音或元音被称为插入音。

I practice the consonant V hard by biting my lower lip.I often read aloud the words such as drive, vegetable and five turgidly.

我经常咬下嘴唇，苦练[v]这个音，夸张地朗读drive,vegetable,five等单词。

Each line is divided by a caesura into two halves; and there are two stresses in each half, falling on the alliterative consonants or vowels.

每行诗以中间停顿分作两个半行，各有两个重读词，或为音头韵，或为元音头韵。