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Bilabial speech sounds with lower lip inserted between teeth
I have noticed the existence of several phones that can be produced with a place of articulation that I haven't seen discussed before. Basically, the two lips contact each other (as in bilabial sounds)...
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What words used throughout the world have a similar sound to "capture" and does the word have a similar meaning?
I was reading with reference to alcázar and I was wondering and searching for a word in English that sounds like al cázar or al capture or al caesar.
Note that al-caesar means something like "to ...
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Diminutive bias from minority language code switching?
Code switching satisfies two criteria, which benefit the creation of diminutives.
Substrate languages (more generly addstratum) are more likely to be spoken between familiar speakers.
They are more ...
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The "plague" and its transmission by "fleas", or "flies"
"fly", Ger "Fliege" (the insect drosophila) could theoretically reflect an earlier *plag. It is linked with "to fly" though, to nobody's surprise.
Old English flȳġe, flēoge (“a fly”), from Proto-...
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