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It is commonly a relic of a velar or palatal fricative that is preserved as a velar fricative.
Modern phoneticians would more precisely categorize such consonants into velar, uvular, pharyngeal, and glottal articulations.
It would then make sense to reconstruct a corresponding set of velar and labiovelar fricatives.
Both species display an association of velar and size dimorphism in the three last instars.
The species are characterized by distinct velar dimorphism and high abundance in several localities.
It is possible that the Texas specimens are also instars and have not developed the velar frill of mature specimens.
Although it is apparently unknown in chondrosteans, it is believed to be homologous to lamprey velar muscles.
There is a voiced velar fricative in many Scottish English words and in traditional Scots.
It shows that the lower a person's social status, the more likely he or she is to use a higher percentage of alveolar rather than velar nasal endings.
The back of the tongue lies opposite the soft palate or velum when the tongue is in a state of rest, and sounds made with the back include velar consonants and back vowels.
Similarly, the voiceless velar or palatal fricative of OE continued in use for most of the period in England and continues to the present day in Scots.
The labiovelars may be thought of as velar stops articulated with simultaneous lip-rounding.
In English, b and p are bilabial stops, d and t are alveolar stops, g and k are velar stops.
The IPA symbol for a voiced velar stop is the single-storey, not the double-storey.
Both breaking and retraction are fundamentally phenomena of assimilation to a following velar consonant.
One also finds similar forms with a final velar nasal in some Kuki-Chin languages, from Ao in the north to Mkaang, Thadou and Meithei in the south.
Czech, Slovak, and Serbian and Croatian, which have the usual three sets of labial, dental, and velar consonants inherited from the protolanguage, have developed a special additional series of palatal stops.
The phonetic characteristic that has mostly interested the linguists in the '800, full of ideals of linguistic purity, is the so called occlusive velar, that is anyway kept only in northern Sardinian.
In particular, it shares the palatalisation of velar consonants also found in Old English.
These included a number of vowel shifts, and the palatalization of velar consonants in many positions.
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Examples from Classical Literature
This is that part of the velar folds which comes together in the middle line and closes the entrance into the respiratory chamber.
In some cases amongst the Nudibranchiata and Pteropoda there are one or two long cilia in the middle of the velar area.
In the centre of the velar area there is usually present a single long flagellum.
What, then, are these velar folds, and how is it that the tubular muscles of these two segments become the velar muscles?
Farther up, within the velar area, the rudiments of the cerebral nerve-ganglion ng are seen separating from the ectoderm.
The palps are really derived from part of the velar area of the larva.
The velar area is in any case the only representative of the head.
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