Meaning of closant | Babel Free

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A consonant-like sound such as uttered by a preverbal infant.

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“At an earlier stage⟳ still, during the first few months of life, the vowel-like and consonant-like sounds are usually so far removed from normal speech that even this convention is misleading. We will label⟳ these sounds vocants and closants and their transcription will be enclosed within double⟳ square brackets e.g. bə.”

“The purpose of this study⟳ was to test⟳ the hypothesis that the PP is an early developmental indicator of increasing phonetic diversity. It was hypothesized that the PP's estimation of increased use⟳ of different places of closant and vocant articulation would describe⟳ the growth of phonetic diversity early in life.”

“These syllables consist⟳ of a closant (consonant-like element) and a vocant (vowel-like element) with a closant - vocant or vocant - closant transition that has a duration that commonly occurs in natural spoken languages (generally < 120 ms).”

“2003, Journal of the Indian Statistical Association, Volumes 41-42, Indian Statistical Association, page 342, At both the ages, children are found to produce⟳ more closant-vocant and vocant - closant utterances than closant - closant and vocant - vocant.”

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