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The study of the production and perception of sounds or "phones".
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Is there a cross-linguistic subdivision of phones in signed languages akin to how all spoken...
One idea that's been going around at least since the 80s is that you can distinguish between Holds and Moves. For instance, many signs have a Hold-Move-Hold structure -- you start with one handshape …
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What is the term for how close a phonetic expression is to its meaning?
I may have misunderstood what you're looking for. But if I understand your question right, there is a term for what you're talking about: iconicity. In cognitive linguistics, expressions that are sim …
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If similar phonemes are pronounced the same, will this be difficult to understand for a nati...
Another way to find "safe" mergers in a language is to look for mergers that some native speakers of that language make. For instance, in English, many speakers merge "cot" and "caught" (i.e. fail to …
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Why do tone and simple syllable structure appear to be correlated?
For a few exceptions to the tone/syllable-structure correlation, look at the Chatino languages — members of the Zapotecan branch of the Otomanguean family. Several of them have complicated tone syste …
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Which languages other than Chinese have apical vowels?
The Mandarin apical vowels are examples of syllabic fricatives — that is, fricative sounds that form the nucleus of a syllable, as a vowel generally would. (Sometimes syllabic fricatives are also cal …
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