{"id":63,"date":"2013-06-20T06:38:17","date_gmt":"2013-06-20T06:38:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/phonetics.livecodehosting.com\/wp2\/?p=63"},"modified":"2016-11-26T09:56:30","modified_gmt":"2016-11-25T20:56:30","slug":"concerning-vowels-and-consonants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/phonetics.livecodehosting.com\/wp2\/2013\/06\/20\/concerning-vowels-and-consonants\/","title":{"rendered":"Concerning vowels and consonants"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Speech consists of syllables, spoken one after another.<\/p>\n<p>As the eminent phonetician Jack Windsor Lewis states:\u00a0<em id=\"__mceDel\">\u201c<\/em>Every syllable must have a vowel or syllabic consonant.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In the context of S4, syllabic consonants are referred to as \u201cdark consonants\u201d. An example is the \u201cand\u201d in \u201crock \u2018n roll\u201d. Here the vowel is reduced to almost nothing.<\/p>\n<p>Basically, a vowel is an autonomous sound that can be pronounced alone and a consonant is an auxiliary sound that can go with a vowel, before or after.<\/p>\n<p>Vowels and consonants can be used singly or in groups.<\/p>\n<p>Accordingly, in the examples of consonants given here, they are associated with the simplest vowel of all, the schwa (<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">\u0259<\/span>). Otherwise, it is hard so see how some of them can be uttered.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speech consists of syllables, spoken one after another. As the eminent phonetician Jack Windsor Lewis states:\u00a0\u201cEvery syllable must have a vowel or syllabic consonant.\u201d In the context of S4, syllabic&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/phonetics.livecodehosting.com\/wp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/phonetics.livecodehosting.com\/wp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/phonetics.livecodehosting.com\/wp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phonetics.livecodehosting.com\/wp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phonetics.livecodehosting.com\/wp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/phonetics.livecodehosting.com\/wp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":355,"href":"https:\/\/phonetics.livecodehosting.com\/wp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63\/revisions\/355"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/phonetics.livecodehosting.com\/wp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phonetics.livecodehosting.com\/wp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phonetics.livecodehosting.com\/wp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}