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acoustic means of distinguishing between fricativesI work on data from an under-described language. I am consulting two sources that present phonemic inventories of the same language. One source posits that the language has a phonemic voiceless velar ...
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Syntactic analysis of why wh-island violations should be ungrammatical yet are commonly usedThis is a type of sentence which I found myself often verging on uttering, then pausing when I realized it wasn't grammatical, and trying to find a simple fix to express the same idea with the same ...
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Nations' names for themselves with foreign etymologiesTL;DR: are there any cases of nations/ethnic groups, whose name for themselves comes from a language that is foreign to them? [I feel like I am missing a term here] Many nations have a name for ...
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dear, ear, fear, gear, hear, near ... why are bear/pear pronounced differently?In class last week we were looking at pronunciation ... and something caught me out. Why are some words spelt very similar to multiple others, yet pronounced so differently? Is it because of their ...
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Sounds that humans make with their mouthsI'm interested in a list of sounds that humans make with their mouths. I'm not looking for speech sounds sounds that take a non-average skill (such as beatboxing) sounds that cannot be made with the ...
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How did the generic masculine emerge?In an essay for school I recently claimed the generic masculine was caused by sexism, but my teacher complained that I hadn't given a reason for this. Assuming my hypothesis is correct, how did this ...
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Why did Old English lose both thorn and eth?My understanding is that Old English had two letters, thorn and eth, which were used interchangeably to represent the sound th as in thin or father. Intuitively, one might think that one of these ...
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Is there an online tool to convert IPA symbols into audio sound?As many amateurs and beginners know, IPA is difficult to memorize and internalize at first. Does software exist where one can paste in IPA text and hear synthesized speech (ideally in the form of a ...
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Why are consonants distinguished differently than vowels?Consonants are distinguished normally by features like place of articulation, manner of articulation, voiced/voiceless, etc. while vowels are usually distingusihed by stuff like tongue's position and ...
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