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pre-consonantal

pre-consonantal is the alternative form of preconsonantal.

Meaning of preconsonantal

Adjective

preconsonantal (not comparable)

  1. Immediately preceding a consonant or consonant sound.
    • Thus, whereas practically all Caribbean speakers [of Spanish] aspirate preconsonantal and word-final /s/ [pronouncing it as [h]] to a certain extent (except, perhaps, for some radio announcers), this is a highly variable process and the highest indices of aspiration and deletion of /s/ are found in...2005, José Ignacio Hualde, The Sounds of Spanish, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 28
    Synonyms:
    anteconsonantal
    Antonyms:
    postconsonantal, non-preconsonantal

Questions about pre-consonantal

What is pre-consonantal the alternative form of?
Pre-consonantal is the alternative form of preconsonantal.

Words near pre-consonantal in the dictionary

  1. pre-conciliar
  2. pre-condition
  3. pre-conditional
  4. pre-conditions
  5. pre-conference
  6. pre-consonantal
  7. pre-cooked
  8. pre-cooler
  9. pre-coolers
  10. pre-covid
  11. pre-crastination

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