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Definition of Percussiveness
1. [n -ES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Percussiveness
Literary usage of Percussiveness
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Visible Speech: The Science ... of Universal Alphabetics; Or Self by Alexander Melville Bell (1867)
"The effect is to dull the oral sibilation, and to deprive the transitional action
of percussiveness. \ The sign of ' trill' applied to C °r to C, ..."
2. On Early English Pronunciation: With Special Reference to Shakespeare and by Alexander John Ellis, William Salesbury, Johann Andreas Schmeller, Francis James Child, Alexander Barclay, Johan Winkler (1874)
"... and percussiveness on leaving the configuration ; and the sign of ' openness*
denotes a widened aperture with consequent dullness of sibilation and ..."
3. Popular Manual of Vocal Physiology and Visible Speech by Alexander Melville Bell (1889)
"All consonants, in good articulation, are formed with more or less of this
breathless oral percussiveness. ..."
4. On Early English Pronunciation, with Especial Reference to Shakespeare and by Alexander John Ellis, Francis James Child, William Salesbury, Alexander Barclay, Johann Andreas Schmeller, Johan Winkler (1875)
"... of sibilation and percussiveness on leaving the configuration ; and the sign
of ' openness* denotes a widened aperture with consequent dullness of ..."
5. Popular Manual of Vocal Physiology and Visible Speech by Alexander Melville Bell (1904)
"All consonants, in good articulation, are formed with more or less of this
breathless oral percussiveness. ..."
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