| I have never, for instance, heard a speaker of English condemn the nasal vowels or the dropped consonants of the French language. |
| Peabody's accent was high and aloof, crisp on the vowels and nasally through the consonants. |
| There is cross-linguistic evidence for associating anaptyxis-prothesis asymmetries with the nature of the consonants involved in the process. |
| You don't have to know what they stand for, just so long as you can reel them off without choking on all the consonants. |
| The most obvious common phonetic feature may be the linguistically distinctive quantity in both vowels and consonants. |
| She spoke without any apparent accent, in a round voice filled with soft vowels and smooth consonants. |
