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  • ...tongue root configuration involving a greater constriction than that found in their [[lax]] counterparts; this greater degree of constriction is frequent In English, [I] in ''will''is lax, while [i] in ''wheel'' is tense.
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  • ...contrasts to distinguish word meanings or grammatical categories (such as tense). [[Category:Phonetics and Phonology]]
    548 bytes (75 words) - 18:51, 29 August 2014
  • ...inflected form of a word is formed by changing the vowel of the [[base]]. In the narrower sense, ''Ablaut'' refers to the system of root vowel alternations in [[Proto-Indo-European]] and its daughter languages.
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  • ...eatures]] (e.g. [[person]], [[number]], [[gender]], [[case]]), [[mood]], [[tense]], and [[aspect]]. [[Count noun]]s in English can be pluralized by adding the inflectional ending -''s'' (''dog-d
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  • ...ference''' refers to the influence of one language (or variety) on another in the speech of [[bilingual]]s who use both languages. ...Those instances of deviation from the norms of either language which occur in the speech of bilinguals as a result of their familiarity with more than on
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  • ...ut only a small minority of the country’s population has native competence in the language, most Irish people being native speakers of [[English]]. ==Phonology==
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  • ...ry is arranged into four larger parts: phonological systems, autosegmental phonology, phonological rules and phonotactics. ...orrespond to a universal depiction of these sounds, phonemes are described in the [http://www.langsci.ucl.ac.uk/ipa/ipachart.html IPA]. The IPA is a set
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  • ...] language with about 7000 speakers spoken by the Tsez, a muslimic people in the mountainous Tsunta district of southern and western [[Dagestan]], [[Rus ...an, [[Arabic language|Arabic]] and Russian, mainly through loanwords and — in the case of Russian — even syntactically and stylistically.
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  • ...e north (just south of Ngorongoro Crater) to the Isanzu agricultural areas in the south. The Hadza do not live at altitudes much above 1500 meters, as th ...s retired from the IPA alphabet because it had no specific phonetic value. In Hadza, the moraic nasal is homorganic with a following consonant.</ref> 'Su
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