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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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Half-letters in American English
This paper documents some of the pronunciations of Japanese "r" (there is a fair amount of mythology surrounding the pronunciation of that phoneme, mostly aimed as the misconception that ...
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Half-letters in American English
Japanese speakers have a hard time perceiving consonant clusters because the phonotactics of Japanese allows few of them. It's not because it's written in syllabaries, or "letters", although ...
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Closeness between written words and spoken words over different languages
As far as I know, no signed language has a standard written form in general use, so we can limit the question to the relationship between writing and speech. We then start by eliminating languages ...
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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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Are there languages without the /j/ sound as in English "yellow"?
In Russian, the consonants are arranged into 4-member squads: hard voiceless, hard voiced, soft voiceless, soft voiced. The [й'] sound is voiced counterpart of [х'], and voiced soft counterpart of [х]....
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