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The study of the abstract aspect of the sounds or *phonemes* in a given language.
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Which phenomena compensate for sound losses in languages?
There's a sound change process (that can be seen as compensatory) where the merging of phonemes causes what used to be conditioned variation to be contrastive. I'll use an example from Chinese:
Midd …
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If two syllables in Mandarin have the same vowels but different tones, can the syllables be ...
This depends on the meaning of "can be said to rhyme". Judgments about the acceptability of rhyming really only make sense in a particular artistic context. I'm using classical Chinese poetry and mode …
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