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(linguistics, Indo-European) Having the accent on the first syllable in all inflected forms.
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written in a single word.
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The repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of two or more words immediately succeeding each other, or at short intervals.
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(phonetics) Any of the pitch allophones of a pitch phoneme.
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(phonology) A letter or combination of letters employed in spelling a word but not pronounced.
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(phonology) A unit representing two or more underlying phonemes, where the distinction between them has been neutralized under certain conditions.
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(linguistics) The manner in which a phoneme is pronounced.
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Alternative form of chereme [(linguistics) A basic unit of a sign language; equivalent to a phoneme.]
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A basic, theoretical unit of sound that can distinguish words by duration only of a vowel or consonant.
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(linguistics) Having phonological rules that allow consonant clusters.
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(linguistics) Substitution, as a means of discriminating between phonemes.
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A script or writing system which has glyphs only for consonants.
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(linguistics) a speech sound which behaves as a single segment, but which makes an internal transition from one quality, place, or manner to another.
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(phonology) An abstract phonological unit that represents collectively the dialectal variants of a phoneme.
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Rare spelling of diaeresis. [(orthography) A diacritic ( ¨ ) placed over a vowel letter (especially the second of two consecutive ones) indicating that it is sounded separately, usually forming a distinct syllable, as in the English words naïve, Noël and Brontë, the French haïr and the Dutch ruïne.]
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(linguistics) A pair of letters, especially a pair representing a single phoneme.
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(phonetics) A pair of adjacent phones.
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Archaic spelling of diaeresis. [(orthography) A diacritic ( ¨ ) placed over a vowel letter (especially the second of two consecutive ones) indicating that it is sounded separately, usually forming a distinct syllable, as in the English words naïve, Noël and Brontë, the French haïr and the Dutch ruïne.]
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(linguistics) property of speech which allows creation of potentially infinite number of meaningful language sequences out of a limited number of meaningless elements called phonemes
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(phonology) The lengthening of a syllable from short to long.
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(phonology, of a phoneme or syllable) Inserted into a word.
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(phonetics) In IPA, the phonetic symbol ɛ that represents the open-mid front unrounded vowel.
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(linguistics) A writing system whose symbols encode phonological features of the sounds that they correspond to.
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(grammar, Mongolic languages, of any word) Having the vowel harmony of a front vowel.
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(phonology) The parsing of syllables into prosodic constituents, which are used to determine the placement of stress in languages along with the notions of constituent heads.
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(phonology) Of a consonant, pronounced longer and considered as being doubled; geminate.
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(epigraphy) The process of indicating that a vowel is pronounced long by writing it twice, especially as was sometimes done in Latin due to influence from Oscan.
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The smallest irreducible unit of language in the theory of glossematics.
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(linguistics) The study of the graphemes, or writing units, of a script, and of their relation to the phonemes of the spoken language
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(linguistics) Of a writing system in which a particular symbol represents more than one possible sound.
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Of or pertaining to extremely long words.
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(linguistics) The representation of ideas by sounds
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(of graphic characters) representing an object or a concept and is associated with a sound element in a natural language
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The practice of adding up the numerical values of the letters in a word to form a single number.
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The "rule" that words or phrases borrowed between languages will be modified in their pronunciation as necessary to conform to the set of sounds used by the borrowing language.
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(linguistics) The act of paying attention to a conversation or speech; listening.
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(linguistics) A portion of a spoken utterance between two pauses.
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(phonology) A phonemic merger where the vowels in "mare", "pat" and "pet" are pronounced the same before /r/, making "Mary", "marry" and "merry" homophones.
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(linguistics) Either of two or more phonemes that have meaning when used together
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(phonology) A pair of words differing by only one phonetic segment or suprasegment, used to prove the validity of a proposed phoneme, toneme, or chroneme.
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(linguistics) A word composed of a single stem that cannot be broken down into constituent morphs.
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(phonetics) A single phone treated as a unit.
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(orthography) having simple one-to-one mapping between letters and phonemes
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(grammar, obsolete) A noun which only occurs in one case.
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(linguistics) The division of a word into single syllables; syllabification.
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(phonology) A unit of syllable weight used in phonology, by which stress, foot structure, or timing of utterance is determined in some languages (e.g. Japanese).
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(phonology) A pair of words differing by a few (but more than one) phonetic segments or suprasegments, used to suggest a proposed phoneme, toneme, or chroneme may be valid.
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Of or relating to notation.
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(phonetics, phonology) The central part of a syllable, most commonly a vowel.
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The art of correct articulation / speaking
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(phonology) prosodic word, phonological word.
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(historical) A phonetic alphabet developed by Alexander John Ellis to represent all spoken sounds of English by means of the printing types that were in common use in mid-19th century, one of the predecessors of IPA.
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(linguistics, of a word) Having a circumflex accent on the last syllable.
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Of or pertaining to perlocution.
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Alternative spelling of phonestheme [(linguistics) A sound that, because it appears in a number of words of similar meaning, has a recognizable semantic association.]
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(phonetics) A speech segment that possesses distinct physical or perceptual properties, considered as a physical event without regard to its place in the phonology of a language.
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An indivisible unit of sound in a given language. A phoneme is an abstraction of the physical speech sounds (phones) and may encompass several different phones.
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(phonology) The phenomenon in which a single phoneme diverges into two different phonemes.
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(linguistics) In such writing systems as the Chinese writing system, the portion of a phono-semantic character that provides an indication of its pronunciation; contrasted with semantic (which is usually the radical).
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(Egyptology) a type of hieroglyph that functions similarly to a phonogram, representing a series of consonants, but is unable to function autonomously and must follow other phonograms that together represent the same consonants
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In electronic applications such as address books, an entry that allows a name to be looked up through pronunciation rather than spelling
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(phonetics) A written symbol used systematically for denoting a phoneme or any other phonetic quality in utterance.
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The study of how the sounds of words are represented by spelling.
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A Chinese character (CJKV character) composed of a component which is related to the meaning the character and another component which is related to the sound of the character.
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(linguistics, uncountable) The study of the way sounds function in languages, including phonemes, syllable structure, stress, accent, intonation, and which sounds are distinctive units within a language.
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(linguistics) A unit of phonemics.
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The phonetic component of a character in Chinese and related writing systems.
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The use of phonosemantic characters.
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(linguistics) A group of letters that represent a single phoneme.
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A dictionary that provides pronunciation of words, usually in the International Phonetic Alphabet.
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A dictionary that provides pronunciation of words, usually in the International Phonetic Alphabet.
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Of or relating to pronunciation.
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Of or relating to pronunciation.
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(linguistics) A phoneme that extends over more than one segment of sound
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(phonetics) A segment of speech that occurs with a single prosodic contour.
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(linguistics) The study of rhythm, intonation, stress, and related attributes in speech.
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Pertaining to punctuation.
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(prosody) A form of metathesis or transposition involving quantity or vowel length, by which two neighboring vowels – one long, one short – switch their lengths, so that the long one becomes short, and the short one becomes long.
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(phonology) A discrete unit of speech: a consonant or a vowel.
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(linguistics) A subset of a phone (speech segment)
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(linguistics, countable) A specific sociophonological system.
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(phonetics) A segment as a part of spoken language, the smallest unit of spoken language, a speech sound.
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The set of speech sounds that make up a language; a phonology.
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(informatics) A phonetic algorithm for indexing names by their English pronunciation, based on the most probably significant consonants, so that a search for a misspelled name may find the desired one.
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At a more specific level than that of phonemes.
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(linguistics) Of, or related to parts or fractions of a syllable.
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(phonetics) An effect on speech, such as length, stress, tone, and phonation type, that extends over more than one segment of sounds.
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(rare) Of, relating to or being a syllabary.
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The property or status (of a syllabic, generally a vowel) of being syllabic, i.e. able to be positioned in the syllable nuclei.
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The division of a word into syllables.
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(linguistics) The expression of the sounds of a language by syllables, rather than by an alphabet or by signs for words.
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A symbol that represents a syllable.
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(linguistics, prosody) the contraction of two vowels into a diphthong or a long vowel.
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(prosody) The pronunciation of two separate vowels as a single one.
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System of teaching children to read by synthesising sounds from letters.
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A speculative theory that human language originated from using tongue movements to mimic manual gestures.
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(linguistics) A phoneme in a language that uses different tones for different meanings.
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(linguistics, countable) The system of rules governing tones in a particular language.
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(phonology) A morpheme based on tonemes.
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(linguistics) A vowel so assimilated.
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(linguistics) An n-gram consisting of a single item from a sequence
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(linguistics) Any of a group of sounds that are used interchangeably in a language
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Any of a group of speech sounds that look the same, for example when lipreading.
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An early phonetic alphabet, devised by Alexander Melville Bell in 1867.
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(orthography, phonology) The addition of these diacritics and the respective phonemes to a word; the spoken form the word thereby receives.
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Relating to the process of articulation in order to speak.
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One of the marks, in certain languages, inserted in consonantal words to indicate vowels.
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Alternative form of vowelling [An arrangement of vowels, for example in Semitic scripts where they are marked over the consonants.]
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(linguistics) In Arabic and Hebrew - supplying the vowels (diacritics), normally not written to show the correct pronunciation, used in dictionaries, children's books, religious texts and textbooks for learners. Arabic terms: tashkiil (تشكيل), taHriik (تحريك) - (action of supplying the vowel points), also known as ḥarakāt (حركات — the singular is ḥaraka حركة) - (the diacritical marks), Hebrew term: ניקוד nikud.
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An arrangement of vowels, for example in Semitic scripts where they are marked over the consonants.
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