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The study of the abstract aspect of the sounds or *phonemes* in a given language.
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Are there any languages with only front vowels?
Regarding "why", it's believed that most languages will go for "maximal dispersion" and try to have vowels as acoustically distinct as possible (or, as easily learnable as possible). So if they choos …
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What are the best books to study Phonology at an introductory level?
More on the phonetics than phonology side, but Ladefoged’s Vowels and Consonants is very accessible and the author is a standard reference. …
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Trying to make sense of "...but voiced obstruents are not always voiced"
The basic rule is that players from Shirtless Team are always shirtless, but players from Shirt Team don't always wear shirts. Sometimes, at the end of the day, it gets too hot and they take off thei …
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How to work with an IPA chart?
Forget about measuring the two-thirds; it's very hard to introspect the exact tongue position. Instead, try to locate the IPA sounds in a language you know; for example, if you look at the wiki page …
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Do stressed (in e.g. English) or pitched (in e.g. Japanese) phones contribute to different p...
Whether we call something a "phoneme" or not depends on the kind of theory and analysis. It’s just an arbitrary tool of description. Some linguists will lump together tones and vowels/consonants as " …
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Distinguishing between [s] and [ʪ] in spectrogram
I do not know any speech pathology. Judging from descriptions online, it seems like a lateral lisp [ʪ] is a production of /s/ with lateral airflow, which would make it a lot similar to the /ɬ/ phoneme …
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