Linguistic Terms and Symbols
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| ablaut | show 🗑
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| show | a combination of a stop and a fricative
e.g. ch in church or j in jaw
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| approximant | show 🗑
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| show | voiceless pronunciation of the first part of a vowel after a voiceless consonant, as if an h follows the consonant
e.g. p in pen
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| show | instance of a word form appearing in a text
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| attested | show 🗑
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| show | an etymologically related sound or word
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| show | a sound pronounced with the tongue touching the front teeth
e.g. d or t
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| show | a distinctive sign such as the umlaut
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| diphthong | show 🗑
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| finite verb form | show 🗑
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| fortis/fortes | show 🗑
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| show | explanatory comment on a word from, consisting of grammatical information and translation
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| show | the partial closure of the vocal folds
e.g. uh-oh between the schwa and the oh
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| infinite verb form | show 🗑
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| show | sound produced with the lips
e.g. p or b
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| laryngeal | show 🗑
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| show | lax, non-tensed, pronunciation of stops, characterized by the absence of features of fortis stops
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| morphology | show 🗑
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| occlusive | show 🗑
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| show | consonant pronounced with the hard palate
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| show | shifting of the pronunciation of a consonant toward the hard palate
e.g. from k to ch as in chin from older *kin
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| paradigm | show 🗑
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| pharyngeal | show 🗑
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| phoneme | show 🗑
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| phonetics | show 🗑
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| phonology | show 🗑
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| show | stop
the release burst of the consonant
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| show | sonorant consonant; in English, inherently voiced consonants
e.g. r, l, m, n
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| show | the basic form of a word without suffixes or endings
e.g. like is the root of liking, likely and likeable
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| schwa | show 🗑
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| semivowel | show 🗑
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| sibilant | show 🗑
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| stem | show 🗑
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| stop | show 🗑
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| suffix | show 🗑
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| show | like a vowel, forming the nucleus of a syllable
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| velar | show 🗑
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| * | show 🗑
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| show | indicates that the letters before or after it are part of a word
e.g. oo in the word book
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| < > | show 🗑
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| show | macron
indicates that the duration of the vowel is longer than that of the same vowel without a makron
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