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English phonology and Silent e

Shortcuts: Differences, Similarities, Jaccard Similarity Coefficient, References.

Difference between English phonology and Silent e

English phonology vs. Silent e

Like many other languages, English has wide variation in pronunciation, both historically and from dialect to dialect. In English orthography, many words feature a silent, most commonly at the end of a word or morpheme.

Similarities between English phonology and Silent e

English phonology and Silent e have 17 things in common (in Unionpedia): Diacritic, Diphthong, English orthography, Front vowel, Great Vowel Shift, Initial-stress-derived noun, International Phonetic Alphabet, List of dialects of the English language, Loanword, Morpheme, Phoneme, Phonological history of English consonant clusters, Phonology, Schwa, Stress (linguistics), Syllable, Tenseness.

Diacritic

A diacritic – also diacritical mark, diacritical point, diacritical sign, or an accent – is a glyph added to a letter, or basic glyph.

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Diphthong

A diphthong (or; from Greek: δίφθογγος, diphthongos, literally "two sounds" or "two tones"), also known as a gliding vowel, is a combination of two adjacent vowel sounds within the same syllable.

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English orthography

English orthography is the system of writing conventions used to represent spoken English in written form that allows readers to connect spelling to sound to meaning.

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Front vowel

A front vowel is any in a class of vowel sound used in some spoken languages, its defining characteristic being that the highest point of the tongue is positioned relatively in front in the mouth without creating a constriction that would make it a consonant.

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Great Vowel Shift

The Great Vowel Shift was a major series of changes in the pronunciation of the English language that took place, beginning in southern England, primarily between 1350 and the 1600s and 1700s, today influencing effectively all dialects of English.

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Initial-stress-derived noun

Initial-stress derivation is a phonological process in English that moves stress to the first syllable of verbs when they are used as nouns or adjectives.

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International Phonetic Alphabet

The International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) is an alphabetic system of phonetic notation based primarily on the Latin alphabet.

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List of dialects of the English language

This is an overview list of dialects of the English language.

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Loanword

A loanword (also loan word or loan-word) is a word adopted from one language (the donor language) and incorporated into another language without translation.

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Morpheme

A morpheme is the smallest grammatical unit in a language.

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Phoneme

A phoneme is one of the units of sound (or gesture in the case of sign languages, see chereme) that distinguish one word from another in a particular language.

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Phonological history of English consonant clusters

The phonological history of the English language includes various changes in the phonology of consonant clusters.

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Phonology

Phonology is a branch of linguistics concerned with the systematic organization of sounds in languages.

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Schwa

In linguistics, specifically phonetics and phonology, schwa (rarely or; sometimes spelled shwa) is the mid central vowel sound (rounded or unrounded) in the middle of the vowel chart, denoted by the IPA symbol ə, or another vowel sound close to that position.

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Stress (linguistics)

In linguistics, and particularly phonology, stress or accent is relative emphasis or prominence given to a certain syllable in a word, or to a certain word in a phrase or sentence.

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Syllable

A syllable is a unit of organization for a sequence of speech sounds.

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Tenseness

In phonology, tenseness or tensing is, most broadly, the pronunciation of a sound with greater muscular effort or constriction than is typical.

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English phonology and Silent e Comparison

English phonology has 164 relations, while Silent e has 61. As they have in common 17, the Jaccard index is 7.56% = 17 / (164 + 61).

References

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