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The study of the production and perception of sounds or "phones".
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Are there counterparts to phones and phonetics for signed languages?
The Hamburg Sign Language Notation System, also abbreviated as HamNoSys is considered to be analogous to the IPA for spoken languages. There is a guide for it that I found but I'm not sure it's the mo …
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About the Swedish /ɧ/
Swedish has quite a peculiarity that I haven't found (yet) in other languages. There are some spellings that are pronounced all the same way. Currently the number of these spellings is disputed, but i …
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What's the difference between phonetics and phonology?
Phonetics is about the physical aspect of sounds.
In phonetics, sounds are called phones.
Phonetics has subcategories where it studies different kinds of sounds. … A phoneme is a “phonic segment” - a unit from phonetics - plus a linguistic “meaning value”. …
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What do reversed and dotted tone letters mean?
The first series is explained in this scheme available on the wikipedia page for IPA, and, as you said, they are tone letters:
˥ = Top
˦ = High
˧ = Mid
˨ = Low
˩ = Bottom
The reversed an …
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How exactly do the sounds of Arabic "ﻕ" and Georgian "ყ" differ?
To be precise, while the IPA for ﻕ is /q/ (N.B. I'm considering standard Arabic), the one for the Georgian ყ is /qʼ/.
The first one is a q sound, the second one is an ejective consonant (you can lis …
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Why in English words is [o] followed by [ʊ]?
In British English, actually, the diphthongization is [əʊ], while [oʊ] is more US pronunciation.
English doesn't have a single [o] in words, because it's a short vowel and English doesn't have a shor …
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