consonanthood

English

Etymology

From consonant +‎ -hood.

Noun

consonanthood (uncountable)

  1. (linguistics, phonology) The property of being a consonant
    • 1997, Hyeon-Kwan Cho, A Phonological Analysis of Consonantal Assimilations and Consonant-vowel Interactions, page 159:
      However, since timing tiers lack the information of consonanthood and vowelhood in other syllable theories, consonanthood and vowelhood must be defined in different ways depending on phonological theories.
    • 2012, Tobias Scheer, What is CVCV and why should it be?, page 300:
      The physiological identity of syllabic consonants on the other hand, their consonanthood, is left unrecorded.

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