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closants

closants is the plural of closant.

Meaning of closant

Noun

closant (plural closants)

  1. A consonant-like sound such as uttered by a preverbal infant.
    • At an earlier stage still, during the first few months of life, the vowel-like and consonant-like sounds are usually so far removed from normal speech that even this convention is misleading. We will label these sounds vocants and closants and their transcription will be enclosed within double...[1981, J[ohn] A[ntony] M[ichael] Martin, “Vocal Behaviour and the Origins of Speech” (chapter 4), in Voice, Speech, and Language in the Child: Development and Disorder (Disorders of Human...

Questions about closants

What is closants the plural of?
Closants is the plural of closant.

Words near closants in the dictionary

  1. clos'd
  2. closability
  3. closable
  4. closant
  5. closantel
  6. closants
  7. close
  8. close as wax
  9. close at hand
  10. close borough
  11. close boroughs

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