A depressor consonant is a consonant that depresses (lowers) the tone of its or a neighboring syllable. This is a consequence of the phonation (type of...

longer words. The breathy consonant phonemes in Zulu are depressor consonants or depressors for short. Depressor consonants have a lowering effect on...

a rounded vowel (except superclose /u/). The consonants marked with a diaeresis are depressor consonants, which have an effect on the tone of their syllable...

onset of the antepenult is a depressor). High spread: all syllables between two high tones become high, as long as no depressor intervenes. This happens not...

two depending on whether the initial consonant was voiced. Vowels following a voiced consonant (depressor consonant) acquired a lower tone as the voicing...

consonants are frequently referred to in the local linguistic literature as 'depressor' stops. Swazi, and to a greater extent Phuthi, display good evidence that...

Ʞ͡χ, Ʞ͡kxʼ. Perhaps better described as slack voice. Tone-depressor effect. Tone-depressor effect. Sometimes a prenasalized click with a short, voiced...

of breathy-voiced consonants, acting as depressor consonants. Development of aspirated consonants. Development of click consonants. Compare the following...

period of murmured phonation, and like other breathy-voiced consonants, may have a depressor effect on tone (in Zulu and Xhosa, for example). They are typically...

that induce tonal alternations in this way are sometimes called depressor consonants. The basic syllable form of Gbe languages is commonly rendered (C1)(C2)V(C3)...

system can easily develop more tonal contrasts under the influence of depressor consonants or through the introduction of a downstep. Languages which have more...

) The more notable characteristic is their depressor effect on the tone of the syllable. When consonants are prenasalised, their pronunciation and spelling...

level occurs after voiced consonants, which have a tone depressor effect. Given that Collins did not control for initial consonants in his analysis, his description...

following vowel. Such consonants are known as 'depressor consonants'. The question of whether Chichewa has depressor consonants was first considered by...

Zygomaticus minor Zygomaticus major Lip depression Risorius Depressor anguli oris Depressor labii inferioris Mentalis Because they have their own muscles...

lengthened vowels, though languages with depressor consonants do have audible upward "swoops" on depressing syllable onsets which may be interpreted as...

give support to the nasal valves. The depressor septi nasi may sometimes be absent or rudimentary. The depressor septi pulls the columella, the septum...

language has a fairly small phoneme inventory, consisting of 11 basic consonants and three basic vowels that have contrastive length counterparts. Blackfoot...

stimulable B: Stimulable after demonstration and probing (i.e. with a tongue depressor) Cannot produce the sound A: Cannot be produced voluntarily B: No production...

word-final consonants. Hyperforeign application of this tendency occurs with omission of these consonants in words with final consonants that are pronounced...

human voice as a medium for language. Spoken language combines vowel and consonant sounds to form units of meaning like words, which belong to a language's...

reduplicated sequence of sounds, the consonant and vowels are alternated as the mandible elevates and depresses. The opening and closing of the mouth...

relevant, A diaeresis below (m̤ n̤ w̤ y̤) indicates that they are of the depressor variety. The Zulu noun consists of two essential parts: the prefix and...

before r, sometimes before l, but was usu. dropped before n; before other consonants m became n, but conicio was written for coniicio. Before a vowel (or h)...

stimulated Stimulate after demonstration and probing (i.e. with a tongue depressor) Cannot produce the sound Cannot be produced voluntarily No production...

sonus absonant, ambisonic, assonance, assonant, assonate, consonance, consonant, consonous, dissonance, dissonant, inconsonance, inconsonant, infrasonic...

autistic children may have less frequent and less diverse babbling, consonants, words, and word combinations; their gestures are less often integrated...

in Wu varieties. Breathy voice appears in Northern Wu and may act as a depressor that lowers the pitch of the entire syllable's realization. Creaky voice...

through the filter of the vocal tract creates the many different vowel and consonant sounds of the world's languages as well as tone, certain realizations...

phonemic depressor and lowers the pitch of the realization. Some linguists, such as Y. R. Chao, transcribe these phones not as voiced consonants, but as...