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Determining the number of phonemes from set of phones

I think the first thing you have to "get" to do this is that "phones" refer to actual pronunciation, and "phonemes" refer to the grammatical "starting point" of ...
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How exactly are vowel qualities plotted on a neat quadrilateral chart?

There are many possible answers, and surprisingly, nobody ever says how they create the trapezium. In your example, we can't even identify an actual person who probably created it. You can find a ...
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What is the name of this sound change, and do we have it in English?

In Arabic this practice is called "ibdal" (which means conversion) (ابدال). In Persian the same name is used because: Persian has borrowed so many words from Arabic. Ibdal is also a Quran ...
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Is it feasible to create an IPA adaptation for cats?

No. IPA is not based on how the sounds are sounding but in where and how in the moth those sounds are produced. Since the cat's anatomy is different, you cannot map human IPA to cats.
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Is it feasible to create an IPA adaptation for cats?

I am not a linguist but as mentioned cats can produce a wide variety of purring, but most seem around r/h: Some works suggests [↓hːr-↑rːh-↓hːr-↑rːh…] notation, with mur-mur being somewhat different ...
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Displaying formants in real time

Late to the party, but I just found some tools that can do this. VowelWorm: https://github.com/BYU-ODH/apeworm demo: https://byu-odh.github.io/apeworm/examples/sources.html (need an older browser to ...
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