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  • ...onological system of a language. Breathiness, for example, is phonemic for vowels in Gujarati and for stops in Igbo (Ladefoged & Maddieson, 1996)
    869 bytes (121 words) - 09:22, 31 August 2014
  • ...tion]] than its [[singleton]] counterpart. This phenomenon is akin to long vowels, represented a [Vː]. However, geminates are frequently represented as a se
    869 bytes (113 words) - 18:32, 20 September 2014
  • ...68), in which stress is considered a property of individual segments (i.e. vowels). In metrical phonology, stress is seen as a relational property obtaining
    1 KB (193 words) - 08:06, 15 October 2007
  • ...for ''ad'' in ''anim-ad-vert'', or ''t'' inserted as a fulcrum between two vowels as ''ego-t-ism''."'' (Haldeman 1865:§65, cited from OED)
    2 KB (230 words) - 20:31, 2 August 2007
  • ...this analysis stress assignment rules assign the [[feature]] [1stress] to vowels. The operation of subsequent stress rules is subject to stress lowering in
    1 KB (156 words) - 08:12, 16 August 2014
  • ...e, separately for vowels and consonants. The percentual frequencies of the vowels can be taken from Table 1 (cf. Budilovič 1883: 67): [[Image:Vowels.jpg]]
    8 KB (1,177 words) - 12:42, 28 November 2007
  • * [[Vowels]] (organized by [[tongue height]] and [[tongue backness|backness]], and by
    1 KB (205 words) - 20:13, 2 June 2015
  • ...neighbouring labial segment [p]. When assimilation takes place between two vowels it is more commonly referred to as [[vowel harmony]].
    2 KB (224 words) - 16:56, 15 June 2014
  • * Ladefoged (2001). ''Vowels and consonants: An introduction to the sounds of languages''. Oxford: Black
    3 KB (331 words) - 16:04, 30 August 2007
  • '''Osthoff's law''' is a tendency of Proto-Indo-European long vowels to shorten when they were followed by a sonorant and another consonant.
    2 KB (200 words) - 18:56, 21 September 2014
  • *P. J. Donegan, On the Natural Phonology of Vowels. Diss. Ohio State Univ. 1979 [N. Y. 1985].
    3 KB (340 words) - 10:08, 31 October 2007
  • ...ong vowels and diphthongs show front-back umlaut variation, stressed short vowels might be lengthened depending on the quantity of the following consonants,
    4 KB (569 words) - 14:30, 30 January 2013
  • ...ge-specific requirements there can be an opposition between short and long vowels: V and VC group together as light as opposed to VV which is heavy.
    2 KB (358 words) - 08:37, 16 August 2014
  • ...by the consonant /x/, and both the first and third syllables contain short vowels, the stress falls on the second syllable. In all other cases (apart from th In the northern dialect, long vowels appear only in stressed syllables; they are shortened in unstressed syllabl
    13 KB (1,654 words) - 20:27, 4 July 2014
  • ...hart.html IPA]. The IPA is a set of phonetic symbols to which for instance vowels and consonants belong. They form a large phonetic inventory which, on the o === Vowels ===
    36 KB (4,969 words) - 13:01, 2 March 2018
  • ...greater [[duration]] or greater accuracy of articulation (most notably in vowels).
    5 KB (653 words) - 12:00, 20 May 2013
  • ...oubled consonants are used for glottalized/ejective consonants and doubled vowels for glottal stop, with the apostrophe only being used for the Swahili conve ...n practice, the Hadza are more likely to write an epenthetic glide between vowels in hiatus, e.g. ⟨aye⟩ for /ae/ vs ⟨ae⟩ for /aʔe/.
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  • ...minor differences can be found. One such difference can be found with long vowels. When writing in Hiragana, long vowels are marked with other Hiragana. ようせい (陽性, ''positivity''): ''
    11 KB (1,473 words) - 08:06, 23 May 2014
  • ...e from Bickel & Nichols (in press) shall demonstrate this once again. (All vowels within the domain of a Turkish phonological word [[Vowel harmony|harmonize]
    8 KB (1,138 words) - 12:47, 25 June 2007
  • ...of consonants renders a language “harder”, whereas a higher percentage of vowels makes it “weeker” – meaning that it is more or less easy to pronounce
    17 KB (2,311 words) - 13:14, 16 August 2007

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