{"id":1666,"date":"2011-08-25T16:41:27","date_gmt":"2011-08-25T15:41:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/sid\/?page_id=1666"},"modified":"2011-09-29T14:45:32","modified_gmt":"2011-09-29T13:45:32","slug":"contoid","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/sid\/?page_id=1666","title":{"rendered":":Contoid:"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pronunciation <strong>GB<\/strong>: <span style=\"color: navy;\"><strong>\u02c8k\u0252nt\u0254\u026ad<\/strong><\/span>, <strong>GA<\/strong>: <span style=\"color: navy;\"><strong>\u02c8k\u0251nt\u0254\u026ad<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>A term introduced by Kenneth Pike to act as the phonetic equivalent of the term <a href=\"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/sid\/?page_id=1663\">consonant<\/a>. Contoids are sounds articulated with a complete closure in the vocal tract or with a stricture narrow enough to cause friction. See also <a href=\"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/sid\/?page_id=1781\">vocoid<\/a>, which is the opposite of contoid. The rationale behind the introduction of these terms was to avoid confusion between the phonological use of the term consonant and its use as a phonetic term. Certain sounds, for example, <span style=\"color: navy;\"><strong>w j<\/strong><\/span> are phonetically vowel-like, but are used as consonants in the phonological systems of many languages. Using Pike&#8217;s terminology, we can say that these sounds are vocoids not contoids, but are consonants in a particular language (English, for example).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pronunciation GB: \u02c8k\u0252nt\u0254\u026ad, GA: \u02c8k\u0251nt\u0254\u026ad A term introduced by Kenneth Pike to act as the phonetic equivalent of the term consonant. Contoids are sounds articulated with a complete closure in the vocal tract or with a stricture narrow enough to &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/sid\/?page_id=1666\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":168,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/sid\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1666"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/sid\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/sid\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/sid\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/sid\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1666"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/sid\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1666\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3472,"href":"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/sid\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1666\/revisions\/3472"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/sid\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/168"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/sid\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}