![continuous progressive contoid vs vocoid [hybrid formation, from Lat. consonare ‘to sound together,’ and vocalis ‘sounding,’ with Grk eĩdos ‘form’]](https://images.tandf.co.uk/common/jackets/crclarge/978041520/9780415203197.jpg "continuous progressive contoid vs vocoid [hybrid formation, from Lat. consonare ‘to sound together,’ and vocalis ‘sounding,’ with Grk eĩdos ‘form’]")
ABSTRACT
Terms introduced by K.Pike to differentiate between the various usages of ‘consonant’ and ‘vowel.’ ‘Contoid’ and ‘vocoid’ refer to the phonetically defined speech sounds and ‘consonant’ and ‘vowel’ to their phonological aspects. Thus the [r] in Czech prst skrz krk] ‘stick the finger in the throat’ is phonetically contoid, but phonologically a vowel, since it functions as the nucleus2 of the syllable.
