Are all consonants vocalized while vowels may or may not be vocalized?
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No. All vowels are vocalized. Vocalizing means that your vocal cords are vibrating. Non-vocalized sounds are done through air pops or hisses. Try saying your vowels. Hear that voice coming from your throat?\n\nConsonants can be either. Touch your throat while you hum the following consonant sounds... M    N   V  L  Do you hear your voice from your throat? Do you feel the vibration with your fingers? Those are vocalized.\n\nNow, here are some non-vocalized: T  K   F   S\n\nHear the difference?\n\nMany consonants are vocalized/non-vocalized partners... the lips and tounge are in the same place for both:\n\nB/P, V/F, K/G, D/T, S/Z\n\nHope this helps!
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Nobody did it on purpose.  It's just that there are a limited number of sounds in English, and a limited number of ways those sounds can be combined into syllables.  In general, though, nobody gets confused about which one you're trying to use.
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You're just acting like your name, aren't you?\n\nOf course this rule only relates to the final silent e changing the initial vowel sound.  There are numerous examples where the initial vowel sound is short an unaffected by the final vowel sound:\nDELI\nDIVA\nFETA\nJAVA\nKILO\nLIMO\nMAGI\nMENU\nMESA\nMINI\nPAPA\netc.
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According to common knowledge are a, e, i, o, u, and sometimes y as in sky, fly, cry, etc.  (when it makes the i. sound)\n"A letter, such as a, e, i, o, u, and sometimes y in the English alphabet, that represents a vowel."\n\nhowever... there are a couple of rare, rare instances: "Cwm and crwth do not contain the letters a, e, i, o, u, or y, the usual vowels (that is, the usual symbols that stand for vowel sounds) in English. But in those words the letter w simply serves instead, standing for the same sound that "oo" stands for in the words boom and booth."
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That's a good question.  I've wondered that myself.  Many of them DO speak with that high-pitched, nasally voice that most of us have tried to mimic at some point in our lives.
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a is correct because the u produces a y consonant sound.
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ok. here is one "HYPOTHESIS OF SOUND"!\n\nLet me know if you want another one! I got plenty.\n\nlol
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WOLF is different\nRest all the words have 2 vowels in them
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Here they are, but you must count them yourself. ~G~\n\n"Rounded\ni y u\ne 2 o\nE 9 O\na  A\nE~9~o~\n  ã\n\nNote: /A/ is for many speakers no longer a phoneme.\n\nWhether /@/ (Schwa) is a phoneme of French is controversial. Some\nsee it as an allophone of /9/\n\nPlosives\n/p, b/\n/k, g/\n/t, d/\n\nFricatives\n/s, z/\n/f, v/\n/S, Z/\n\nNasals\n/m, n, n_j/ For some speakers, /n_j/ is probably /n/ + /j/\n\nLateral\n/l/\n\nVibrant\n/r/ (Uvular trill)\n\nSemi-vowel\n/j/"
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How many people are going to ask this today?  Is this a homework question or something?  See other answers . . .\n\nIf you want them with the vowels in order (which is harder), some of the words are:\nabstemiously\narseniously\nfacetiously\n\nThere are literally dozens if the vowels don't have to be in order.
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Maybe you have laryngitis. If you have laryngitis, your voice will not work.  Give it a few days and it should get better.
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No, coarticulation refers to how we use multiple muscle groupings (lips, tounge, jaw, vocal cords, breath control/diaphram) to create sounds (vowels or consonants). Each grouping must articulate correctly, together, to create the desired sound(s).
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Yes, it is pronounced "toom" - the "b" is silent and the "o" is long.  It's kind of along the same lines that we pronounce through "thru" and the "ough" sounds silent...
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Telling someone something with your voice.\nThe faculty or act of speaking.\nThe faculty or act of expressing or describing thoughts, feelings, or perceptions by the articulation of words.\nVocal communication; conversation.\n\nSpeech sounds produced during phonation are called voiced. Almost all of the vowel sounds of the major languages and some of the consonants are voiced. In English, voiced consonants may be illustrated by the initial and final sounds in the following words: “bathe,” “dog,” “man,” “jail.” The speech sounds produced when the vocal folds are apart and are not vibrating are called unvoiced; examples are the consonants in the words “hat,” “cap,” “sash,” “faith.” During whispering all the sounds are unvoiced.
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actually there is, but not perfect, it makes the vocal sounds softer...\n\nRealtek's Sound Effect\n\nyou can still hear some vocals but not so loud
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A consonant is a sound in spoken language that is characterized by a closure or stricture of the vocal tract sufficient to cause audible turbulence. The word consonant comes from Latin and means "sounding with" or "sounding together," the idea being that consonants don't sound on their own, but occur only with a nearby vowel, which is the case in Latin. This conception of consonants, however, does not reflect the modern linguistic understanding which defines consonants in terms of vocal tract constriction.
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Yes it has supposedly been proved that cows do. I saw it on the news.\n\n'Cows have regional accents like humans, language specialists have suggested. \nThey decided to examine the issue after dairy farmers noticed their cows had slightly different moos, depending on which herd they came from. \n\nJohn Wells, Professor of Phonetics at the University of London, said regional twangs had been seen before in birds'\n\n\nCheck this BBC article.\n\nhttp://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/5277090.stm