In a manner relating to or characteristic of consonants; from the perspective of consonant production or consonant phonetics.
From consonantal + -ly (adverb suffix). A technical linguistic adverb used in academic descriptions of speech sounds.
When linguists describe something 'consonantally,' they're being precise about which articulatory features matter—a sound might be 'vocalically open but consonantally produced,' showing how technical language captures nature's complexity.
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