Alliteration is usually distinguished as and within, from the mere repetition of the same sound at positions other than the beginning of each word — whether a consonant, as in " some mammals are clammy " ( consonance ) or a vowel, as in " yellow wedding bells " ( assonance ); but the term is sometimes used in these broader senses.

Alliteration is a special case of consonance where the repeated consonant sound is at the beginning of each word, as in " few flocked to the fight ".

The major third is classed as an imperfect consonance and is considered one of the most consonant intervals after the unison, octave, perfect fifth, and perfect fourth.

Assonance is the repetition of vowel sounds to create internal rhyming within phrases or sentences, and together with alliteration and consonance serves as one of the building blocks of verse.

Another special case of consonance is sibilance, the use of several sibilant sounds such as / s / and / sh /.

He did a wide range of studies of the phenomenological characteristics of the sounds of different instruments, the determinants of melody, tonal fusion, and the consonance and dissonance of tones.

According to legend, Pythagoras discovered the foundations of music by listening to the sounds of four blacksmith's hammers, which produced consonance and dissonance when they were struck simultaneously.

Neighborhood committees and work units, supervised by local officials, used peer pressure to handle most legal problems in consonance with current central policies.

In more general usage, a consonance is a combination of notes that sound pleasant to most people when played at the same time ; dissonance is a combination of notes that sound harsh or unpleasant to most people.

* January 6, 2001: John Paul II issues Novo Millennio Ineunte, a program for the Church in the new millennium, wherein he placed sanctity through a training in prayer as the most important priority of the Catholic Church in consonance with its purpose.

Palestrina, on the other hand, came to cultivate a freely flowing style of counterpoint in a thick, rich texture within which consonance followed dissonance on a nearly beat-by-beat basis, and suspensions ruled the day ( see counterpoint ).

Effectively, this meant writing English verse based not so much on metre as on complex patterns of assonance, consonance, and half rhyme.

* alliteration: Repetition of the first consonant sound in a phrase.

* assonance: Repetition of vowel sounds, most commonly within a short passage of verse

Repetition had staled even this most grisly of entertainments, and audiences grew bored.

Because of the low Pulse Repetition Frequency ( PRF ) of most coherent pulsed radars, which maximizes the coverage in range, the amount of doppler processing is limited.

Repetition of falsehoods from numerous outlets, nearly simultaneously, is one of the most effective means to mislead by distraction.

* Repetition bias – A willingness to believe what we have been told most often and by the greatest number of different sources.

* Repetition bias-A willingness to believe what we have been told most often and by the greatest number of different of sources.

Repetition of the nembutsu is the most fundamental practice of Jōdo-shū, which derives from the Primal Vow of Amitābha Buddha.

The most fundamental exercise in Meisner training is the Repetition exercise.

In a syllabary, a grapheme denotes a complete syllable, that is, either a lone vowel sound or a combination of a vowel sound with one or more consonant sounds.

Since the number of possible sounds in all of the world's languages is much greater than the number of letters in any one alphabet, linguists have devised systems such as the International Phonetic Alphabet ( IPA ) to assign a unique and unambiguous symbol to each attested consonant.

In fact, the English alphabet has fewer consonant letters than English has consonant sounds, so digraphs like " ch ", " sh ", " th ", and " zh " are used to extend the alphabet, and some letters and digraphs represent more than one consonant.

Hebrew and Arabic also indicate consonant doubling and change with diacritics ; Hebrew and Devanagari use them for foreign sounds.

Modern Gurmukhi has forty-one consonants ( vianjan ), nine vowel symbols ( lāga mātrā ), two symbols for nasal sounds ( bindī and ), and one symbol which duplicates the sound of any consonant ( addak ).

Each kana is either a vowel such as " a " ( hiragana あ ); a consonant followed by a vowel such as " ka " ( hiragana か ); or " n " ( hiragana ん ), a nasal sonorant which, depending on the context, sounds either like English m, n, or ng (), or like the nasal vowels of French.

Each kana is either a vowel such as " a " ( katakana ア ); a consonant followed by a vowel such as " ka " ( katakana カ ); or " n " ( katakana ン ), a nasal sonorant which, depending on the context, sounds either like English m, n, or ng (), or like the nasal vowels of French.

However, although a language may contrast pre-velar and post-velar sounds, it will not also contrast them with palatal and uvular sounds ( of the same type of consonant ), so that contrasts are limited to the number above if not always their exact location.

Being " R-like " is an elusive and ambiguous concept phonetically and the same sounds that function as rhotics in some systems may pattern with fricatives, semivowels or even stops in others — for example, " tt " in American English " better " is often pronounced as alveolar tap, a rhotic consonant in many other languages.

In these scripts, unlike in pure syllabaries, syllables starting with the same consonant are expressed with characters that are based on the same sign, and generally each character representing a syllable consists of several elements which designate the individual sounds of that syllable.

Harmonization usually sounds pleasant to the ear when there is a balance between the consonant and dissonant sounds.

The system works by converting numbers into consonant sounds, then into words by adding vowels.

* Short vowel + consonant patterns involve the spelling of the sounds as in peek, as in stage, and as in speech.

Harmony processes are " long-distance " in the sense that the assimilation involves sounds that are separated by intervening segments ( usually consonant segments ).

The number 48 includes all consonant sounds, including variations and rare sounds, which may be semantically distinct in the modern Belarusian language.

The process of altering a source sound as it passes 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 of stress and other types of linguistic prosody.

The Scottish Vowel Length Rule lengthens a wide variety of vowel sounds in several environments, and shortens them in others ; " long " environments include when the vowel precedes a number of voiced consonant sounds.

# For most consonant sounds, there are two different letters that both represent the same sound, but which cause the associated tone mark to be interpreted differently.

Dentals are primarily distinguished from sounds in which contact is made with the tongue and the gum ridge, as in English ( see Alveolar consonant ), due to the acoustic similarity of the sounds and the fact that in the Roman alphabet they are generally written using the same symbols ( t, d, n, and so on ).

In most dialects of English, the initial consonant is aspirated in pin and unaspirated in bin.

The letter T, the most common consonant in English.

Most languages, however, do include one or more fricatives, with being the most common, and a liquid consonant or two, with the most common.

The most frequent consonant ( that is, the one appearing most often in speech ) in many languages is.

The derivation must then have been secondary for the initial ayin to be confused with an aleph ( both represented by vowels in Akkadian ), and the second consonant descended as a / s / ( like in the Aramaic asthr " bright star "), rather than a / sh / as in Hebrew and most commonly in Akkadian.

The most common example is the letter ⟨ x ⟩ which normally represents the consonant cluster ( for example, in the word ex-wife, pronounced ).

However, whereas is entirely unknown in indigenous Australian languages, most of the other languages without true fricatives do have in their consonant inventory.

Elsewhere in the world, two liquids of the types mentioned above remains the most common attribute of a language's consonant inventory, except in North America and Australia.

Composers such as Terry Riley, Krzysztof Penderecki, György Ligeti, Henryk Górecki, Bradley Joseph, John Adams, George Crumb, Steve Reich, Phillip Glass, Michael Nyman, and Lou Harrison reacted to the perceived elitism and dissonant sound of atonal academic modernism by producing music with simple textures and relatively consonant harmonies, whilst others, most notably John Cage challenged the prevailing Narratives of beauty and objectivity common to Modernism.

It is the most commonly used consonant and the second most common letter in the English language.

In most of the alphabets of India and Southeast Asia, vowels are indicated through diacritics or modification of the shape of the consonant.

The most common consonant digraphs are ch for, ng for, ph for, sh for, th for and.

For example, in Icelandic, both monophthongs and diphthongs are pronounced long before single consonants and short before most consonant clusters.

The most significant consonant changes affecting Vulgar Latin were palatalization ( which affected all areas except Sardinia ); lenition ( which affected the areas north and west of the La Spezia-Rimini line ); and loss of final consonants.

This distinction is found in almost all consonant phonemes and is one of the most distinguishing features of the language.

Although denti-alveolar consonants are often described as dental, it is the rear-most point of contact that is most relevant, for this is what defines the maximum acoustic space of resonance and will give a consonant its characteristic sound.

One of the key features of his system is that he ranks all musical intervals of the 12-tone equally tempered scale from the most consonant to the most dissonant.

The Senegambian languages exhibit consonant mutation, and most Atlantic languages have noun-class systems similar to those of the distantly related Bantu languages.

In other aspects, the pronunciation of hanja is more conservative than most northern and central Chinese dialects, for example in the retention of labial consonant codas in characters with labial consonant onsets, such as the characters 法 ( 법 beop ) and 凡 ( 범 beom ); the labial codas existed in Middle Chinese but do not survive intact in most northern and central Chinese varieties today.