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The study of the abstract aspect of the sounds or *phonemes* in a given language.
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Why ??????? instead of ????????
In Masoretic Hebrew, certain Segolates of the form CeCeC become CāCeC in pause. For example, ?eres? (?????) becomes ?a?res? (?????), keleb? (??????) becomes ka?leb? (??????), geb?er (??????) becomes ...
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What can cause a pronunciation to form in a population with (seemingly) no shared characteristics between speakers
According to Wiktionary, the general American pronunciation of "museum" is /mju?zi?m/. Included in "(US, dialectal)" is /mju?z?m/. I pronounce it the latter way. I have been called ...
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How were labial consonants substituted in loanwords into Iroquoian?
Iroquoian languages tend to lack labial consonants such as /p b m f/; what were they substituted with in loanwords? (Specifically those languages that lack /k?/ since this would be an obvious ...
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Phonological forms and phonological shapes
Do phonological forms and phonological shapes mean the same thing?
Context: "One of the most common
complications is that morphemes may have different phonological shapes
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Correctness criteria in linguistics
How can we determine whether a particular proposition, that is, a statement made by linguists about a language, is correct? This question applies across all levels of linguistic analysis, but my ...
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What is the official name for the b? and v distinction?
In the Bengali alphabet, the letters ? and ? appear. Based on [Wikipedia], they are pronounced b? (an aspirated version of b) and p? (an aspirated version of f) respectively. It appears to me (as a ...
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Why is adjusting one's accent less prevalent in English?
Native English speakers usually use their natural accent, and almost never switch to a more common dialect. Most English speakers probably can do a good impression of say, standard American or ...
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The complex nature of final L after stops in French
The renowned French phonetician Pierre Fouché writes on page XX of his book Traité de prononciation fran?aise (1959):
Deviennent également sourdes les consonnes [?], [l], terminant un mot
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Why do both Hebrew and Arabic both geminate consonants after the definite article?
After the definite article, the first letter is doubled in both languages, with a daggesh in Hebrew and with a shaddah in Arabic. As this has to do with diacritics, which were added to both languages ...
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What is the historical development of /h/ and /t/ in Hebrew and Arabic as a feminine singular noun ending?
In both Biblical Hebrew and Qur'anic Arabic, /h/ is a feminine singular noun ending that changes into a /t/ when in the genitive. Is there an historical explanation for this? Is the original feminine ...
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Origins of missing letter V in Veneto dialects and in Talian
I am currently studying Talian (a language that is basically Veneto plus some influence from Brasilian-Portuguese and other notheren italian dialects - but is basically Veneto) and I noticed there are ...
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Are there languages that distinguish between /l/ and a trill /r/ which borrow English /?/ as /l/?
Title says it all basically; a language in which the English R is perceived to be more similar to L than it is to the alveolar/dental trill.
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What are the unique phonological features of the Tamil language compared to other South Indian languages like Telugu, Kannada, and Malayalam?
Iam keen on knowing about the phonological features that sets Tamil apart from other major South Indian languages like Telugu, Kannada, and Malayalam. Particularly need to know the differences in ...
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which books i need to read for learning Phonetics and Sound Changes?
i want to know different sound changes in different languages in the world, especially phonetical changes and historical changes in a language's phonology.
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looking for the right term for a linguistic change
I am studying the etymology of a post-position in Turkish. It is 'diye' in modern Turkish, a post-position that has arisen from the grammaticalization of the gerund form of the verb 'di-' (meaning '...
