Consonants are less intense and more context-dependent than vowels.
Evidence
Consonant sounds of a language contrast to vowels by being, in general, less intense, more context-dependent (more coarticulated), and produced with a more constricted vocal tract or by special sound-generation mechanisms. — Ville Pulkki, Matti Karjalainen, Communication Acoustics- An…, 576
Categorization
Category: Definitional Content
- DEFINE: Defines the vowel-consonant contrast through articulation mechanisms.
Related
- Consonants differ from vowels in intensity, context-dependence, and articulation constriction (similarity 0.98)
- Vowels keep the vocal tract open and vary little by context, unlike consonants (similarity 0.89)
- Vowels are distinguished by the location of F1 and F2 formants (similarity 0.82)
- Vowels are distinguished by the two lowest vocal tract resonance frequencies. (similarity 0.81)
- Vowels are distinguished by formant frequencies controlled by tongue, jaw, and lips (similarity 0.80)
- Vowels dominate perceived loudness while consonants carry intelligibility (similarity 0.79)
- Vowel identity depends on the locations of the two lowest vocal tract formants (similarity 0.79)
- Simultaneous synthetic vowels can be separated by their fundamental frequencies alone. (similarity 0.78)
- Voice differences include formant and temporal cues beyond fundamental frequency (similarity 0.78)