The fortition is typically a change from continuant to affricate or continuant to stop ( i . e . adding a period of closure to the articulation ).
22.
Before this affix, continuants assimilate progressively ( pes + ne-?! pesse-) and stops regressively ( korjat + ne-?! korjanne-).
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The Phoenician letter expressed the continuants of two Proto-Semitic phonemes, and may have been based on a pictogram of a tooth ( in modern Hebrew " shen " ).
24.
Greek grammarians placed the letters } } in the category of stops, not of continuants, indicating that these letters represented stops in Ancient Greek, rather than fricatives as in Modern Greek.
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The letter ( i . e . continuant of Old Norse ) is usually silent between vowels or when following a vowel before a pause ( e . g .'day', cf.
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To give a further example, the system of Chomsky and Halle defines the class of voiceless stops by the specification of two binary features : [-continuant ] and [-voice ].
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Overall, " The British Pacific Fleet " is an excellent reference for editors working on articles concerning the fleet's operations or those of its continuant ships and a good read.
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These are not relevant to the description of the class and are unnecessary, since the features [-continuant ] and [-voice ] already include all voiceless stops and exclude all other sounds.
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:= " Preconsonantal voiceless non-continuants ( i . e . voiceless stops ) changed into corresponding voiceless continuants ( Iranian " when immediately followed by a continuant consonant ( i . e . resonants and fricatives ).
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:= " Preconsonantal voiceless non-continuants ( i . e . voiceless stops ) changed into corresponding voiceless continuants ( Iranian " when immediately followed by a continuant consonant ( i . e . resonants and fricatives ).
