Questions tagged [phones]
a speech sound with regard to its physical properties, and not its role in the phonology of a language
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Bilabial speech sounds with lower lip inserted between teeth
I have noticed the existence of several phones that can be produced with a place of articulation that I haven't seen discussed before. Basically, the two lips contact each other (as in bilabial sounds)...
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Should orthographies represent phonemes or phones?
I am currently working with Salvadoran Nawat, an endangered language that has never had a standardized orthography due to being primarily oral. As part of the revitalization process, we need to ...
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Why are the coronal approximants so different from the others?
I’m aware that there has been some criticism of the IPA’s classification of approximants, as well as debate over the merit of the term itself. However, my understanding is that approximants are the ...
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Why are voiced ejectives impossible?
Sounds made using the glottalic egressive airstream mechanism (one of the six main airstream mechanisms, and also of the four that are actually phonemic in natural human languages) are known as ...
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Morphophonemic rules in phonology
I am wondering how the two phonological terms "morphonemic rules" and "morphophonemic rules" can be distinguished?
A morpheme might have different presentations (i.e. ...
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What is "˥˩" in the IPA?
While reading the Wikipedia page on voiced bilabial trill, I came across a transcription in the occurrence section which looks like:
[tʙ̩˥˩]
The word is from Lizu language and means 'bean'. What is ...
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Evolution of [v] to [b] and vice versa
There are many examples that show that two phones [v] and [b] are related:
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Old English to New English
* habban
have
have
Middle Persian to New Persian
varan
baran
rain
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What is the difference between phone (speech sound) and a sound?
I am not sure if I am asking a question in the right site. I don't know know if I am even asking a biological, linguistic or physics question. But I recently started learning about language and its ...
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Precise timing measurement in Praat / .wav files
When analyzing .wav files in Praat, total time duration and target speech segments are represented down to 6 decimals. For example: 154.900000 seconds (borrowed from a Google image screenshot). ...
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Why is the Arabic alif maksura sometimes read as a ya
Why is the final alif maksura of Habibullaah Kalakaani read as a ya? If so, then why doesn't it have two dots beneath, or is the transcription wrong?
Thanks.
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How do they separate phones' length?
In phonetics we use below symbols to talk about phones' length. My question is that how do we measure it? In other words, since these terms (long, half-long extra-short) are relative, how do we ...
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For each IPA phone, are there animations or videos that depict the vocal tract during articulation?
(TL;DR) For each IPA phone, are there animations, ams, pictures or videos that depict exactly and precisely the location of your articulators (eg: your tongue), needed to articulate that letter?
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What are multiple writing systems used for in a single language?
I've created a phonemic alphabet. I realize that because it is phonemic, I do not need spaces or other markers to separate words; the spelling doesn't matter because each letter has one sound and ...
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Voiced aspirated sonorants? (Not breathy voiced)
I was looking at the Wikipedia page on the Wa Language and came across something strange in the consonant table: the consonants [mʰ], [nʰ], [ɲʰ], [ŋʰ], [rʰ], [jʰ], and [lʰ]. Not only are they ...
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Why don't any languages have strictly one character for every single phonetic sound?
Of the languages I know about, most of them (not Chinese, Japanese, etc.) only have characters or character groups for specific sounds, and also can have a single specific sound generated by placing ...
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Is there a public sound bank of the IPA?
I'm looking for a comprehensive audio database of the IPA, spoken by the same individual. I realize the this restriction may not include the full set of the IPA and I'm willing to settle on the ...
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SAMPA of a language - phones or phonemes?
I currently hear a lecture with the topic "Spoken Language Processing" and I have problems to understand SAMPA. I know that the IPA encodes the phones of human languages, so its possible to encode the ...
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What name should be given to this allophone of /tʃ/?
I am a native English speaker, but when I make the sound which should be /tʃ/, I have been told that I begin it by placing the tip of my tongue briefly between my teeth, as if I was going to start a ...
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How to determine one's own native vowel phone repertoire?
I'm an armchair linguist. By this I mean it's been an absorbing hobby for decades by reading books and online and playing with many languages. But I've never taken any course or other kind of formal ...
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Why do some languages not have the "th" sound?
Why some languages don't have the "th" sound? (voiced and voiceless dental fricatives)
They say languages such as French, Turkish etc don't have the "th" sound as in "thin" and "then".
I sometimes ...
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Is there an IPA character for the sympathetic sucking in sound?
Is there an IPA symbol for the sound you might make when you burn yourself or someone tells you a story about an injury they have—when you suck your breath quickly through your teeth with your ...
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Is there a cross-linguistic subdivision of phones in signed languages akin to how all spoken languages have vowel and consonant phones?
After reading Joe Martin's enlightening answer to the question "Are there counterparts to phones and phonetics for signed languages?" I immediately began to wonder how much further spoken and signed ...
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Where does the term "segment" fit in in relation to "phone" and "phoneme"?
In a recent question seeking to clarify how diphthongs relate to phonemes, another term popped up in the comments, segment.
This made me wonder if "segment" is some kind of synonym for either "phone" ...
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How can a speaker tell whether their idiolect has "dark l"?
I believe my variety of English, General Australian, has "dark l", but I'm not sure.
I can't tell if I have it in my own idiolect or not.
It's pretty well accepted (I think) that it's hard to ...
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