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consonant harmonies

consonant harmonies is the plural of consonant harmony.

Meaning of consonant harmony

Noun

consonant harmony (countable and uncountable, plural consonant harmonies)

  1. A process in linguistics where nonadjacent consonants within a word assimilate to share a specific articulatory or acoustic feature, such as place of articulation, over a distance.

Questions about consonant harmonies

What is consonant harmonies the plural of?
Consonant harmonies is the plural of consonant harmony.

Words near consonant harmonies in the dictionary

  1. consonant
  2. consonant cluster
  3. consonant clusters
  4. consonant gradation
  5. consonant gradations
  6. consonant harmonies
  7. consonant harmony
  8. consonant rhyme
  9. consonant rhymes
  10. consonant stem
  11. consonant stems

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