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78 relations: /æ/ raising, Advanced and retracted tongue root, American English, Americanist phonetic notation, Atlantean language, Bavarian language, Bernese German phonology, Body Bags (film), Bororo language, Burmese language, Carrier language, Chain shift, Checked and free vowels, Dutch language, Dutch phonology, Eastern New England English, English phonology, English-language vowel changes before historic /r/, Fortis and lenis, Fuzhou Transliteration Scheme, General American, German orthography, Gold Coast alphabet, Halkomelem, History of the International Phonetic Alphabet, Imāla, Index of phonetics articles, Initial-stress-derived noun, Irish phonology, Japanese phonology, Kaqchikel language, Konyak language, Korean phonology, LAX (disambiguation), List of Latin-script digraphs, Makah language, Manchu language, Mid-Atlantic American English, Minjiang dialect, Modern English, Munster Irish, Near-open vowel, New Jersey English, Old Chinese phonology, Old Irish, Permic languages, Phonological history of English, Phonological history of English high back vowels, Phonological history of English high front vowels, Phonological history of English vowels, ..., Pronunciation of English ⟨a⟩, Proto-Berber language, Proto-Circassian language, Quebec French, Second-language phonology, Selkup language, Sichuanese dialects, Silent e, Southern American English, Standard German phonology, Stress and vowel reduction in English, Syllable, Tense, Tensing, Tension, Tlingit language, Transcription into Japanese, Tungusic languages, Uvular ejective, Voice (phonetics), Voiceless alveolar fricative, Voiceless bilabial stop, Voiceless uvular fricative, Vowel, Vowel length, Western New England English, Yaghan language, Zainichi Korean language. Expand index (28 more) »
/æ/ raising
In the sociolinguistics of the English language, raising or short-a raising is a phenomenon in most American and many Canadian English accents, by which the "short a" vowel, the North American vowel (found in such words as ash, bath, man, lamp, pal, rag, sack, trap, etc.), is pronounced with a raising of the tongue.
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Advanced and retracted tongue root
In phonetics, advanced tongue root and retracted tongue root, abbreviated ATR or RTR, are contrasting states of the root of the tongue during the pronunciation of vowels in some languages, especially in Western and Eastern Africa but also in Kazakh and Mongolian.
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American English
American English (AmE, AE, AmEng, USEng, en-US), sometimes called United States English or U.S. English, is the set of varieties of the English language native to the United States.
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Americanist phonetic notation
Americanist phonetic notation, also known as the North American Phonetic Alphabet or NAPA, is a system of phonetic notation originally developed by European and American anthropologists and language scientists (many of whom were students of Neogrammarians) for the phonetic and phonemic transcription of indigenous languages of the Americas and for languages of Europe.
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Atlantean language
The Atlantean language is a constructed language created by Marc Okrand for the Disney film Atlantis: The Lost Empire.
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Bavarian language
Bavarian (also known as Bavarian Austrian or Austro-Bavarian; Boarisch or Bairisch; Bairisch; bajor) is a West Germanic language belonging to the Upper German group, spoken in the southeast of the German language area, much of Bavaria, much of Austria and South Tyrol in Italy.
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Bernese German phonology
This article is about the phonology of Bernese German.
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Body Bags (film)
Body Bags is a 1993 American horror comedy anthology television film originally made for television, featuring three unconnected stories, with bookend segments featuring John Carpenter and Tobe Hooper as deranged morgue attendees.
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Bororo language
Bororo (Borôro), also known as Boe, is the sole surviving language of a small family believed to be part of the Macro-Gê languages.
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Burmese language
The Burmese language (မြန်မာဘာသာ, MLCTS: mranmabhasa, IPA) is the official language of Myanmar.
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Carrier language
The Carrier language is a Northern Athabaskan language.
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Chain shift
In historical linguistics, a chain shift is a set of sound changes in which the change in pronunciation of one speech sound (typically, a phoneme) is linked to, and presumably causes, the change in pronunciation of other sounds as well.
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Checked and free vowels
In phonetics and phonology, checked vowels are those that commonly stand in a stressed closed syllable; and free vowels are those that commonly stand in a stressed open syllable.
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Dutch language
The Dutch language is a West Germanic language, spoken by around 23 million people as a first language (including the population of the Netherlands where it is the official language, and about sixty percent of Belgium where it is one of the three official languages) and by another 5 million as a second language.
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Dutch phonology
Dutch phonology is similar to that of other West Germanic languages.
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Eastern New England English
Eastern New England English, historically known as the Yankee dialect since at least the nineteenth century, is the traditional regional dialect of Maine, New Hampshire, and the eastern half of Massachusetts.
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English phonology
Like many other languages, English has wide variation in pronunciation, both historically and from dialect to dialect.
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English-language vowel changes before historic /r/
In English, many vowel shifts only affect vowels followed by in rhotic dialects, or vowels that were historically followed by an that has since been elided in non-rhotic dialects.
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Fortis and lenis
In linguistics, fortis and lenis (Latin for "strong" and "weak"), sometimes identified with '''tense''' and '''lax''', are pronunciations of consonants with relatively greater and lesser energy.
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Fuzhou Transliteration Scheme
The Fuzhou Transliteration Scheme refers to the romanization scheme published in 1994 for the Fuzhou Dialect Dictionary, romanizing the Fuzhou dialect.
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General American
General American (abbreviated as GA or GenAm) is the umbrella variety of American English—the continuum of accents—spoken by a majority of Americans and popularly perceived, among Americans, as lacking any distinctly regional, ethnic, or socioeconomic characteristics.
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German orthography
German orthography is the orthography used in writing the German language, which is largely phonemic.
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Gold Coast alphabet
The Gold Coast alphabet also Gold Coast language was a Latin alphabet used to write the Akan language during the Gold Coast era, now Ghana.
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Halkomelem
Halkomelem (Halq̓eméylem in the Upriver dialect, Hul̓q̓umín̓um̓ in the Island dialect, and hən̓q̓əmin̓əm̓ in the Downriver dialect) is a language of various First Nations peoples in British Columbia, ranging from southeastern Vancouver Island from the west shore of Saanich Inlet northward beyond Gabriola Island and Nanaimo to Nanoose Bay and including the Lower Mainland from the Fraser River Delta upriver to Harrison Lake and the lower boundary of the Fraser Canyon.
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History of the International Phonetic Alphabet
The International Phonetic Alphabet was created soon after the International Phonetic Association was established in the late 19th century.
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Imāla
Imāla (also transliterated; إمالة, literally "slanting") is a vowel shift exhibited in many dialects of Arabic where the open vowel, whether long or short, is raised to or even in certain morphological or phonological contexts.
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Index of phonetics articles
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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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Irish phonology
The phonology of the Irish language varies from dialect to dialect; there is no standard pronunciation of Irish.
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Japanese phonology
The phonology of Japanese has about 15 consonant phonemes, the cross-linguistically typical five-vowel system of, and a relatively simple phonotactic distribution of phonemes allowing few consonant clusters.
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Kaqchikel language
The Kaqchikel, or Kaqchiquel, language (in modern orthography; formerly also spelled Cakchiquel or Cakchiquiel) is an indigenous Mesoamerican language and a member of the Quichean–Mamean branch of the Mayan languages family.
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Konyak language
Konyak is a Sino-Tibetan language spoken by the Konyak people of Nagaland, northeastern India.
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Korean phonology
This article is a technical description of the phonetics and phonology of Korean.
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LAX (disambiguation)
LAX is the airport identifier code for the Los Angeles International Airport.
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List of Latin-script digraphs
This is a list of digraphs used in various Latin alphabets.
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Makah language
The Makah language is the indigenous language spoken by the Makah.
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Manchu language
Manchu (Manchu: manju gisun) is a critically endangered Tungusic language spoken in Manchuria; it was the native language of the Manchus and one of the official languages of the Qing dynasty (1636–1911) of China.
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Mid-Atlantic American English
Mid-Atlantic American English, Middle Atlantic American English, or Delaware Valley English is a class of American English, considered by The Atlas of North American English to be a single dialect, spoken in the southern Mid-Atlantic states of the United States (i.e. the Delaware Valley, southeastern Pennsylvania, South Jersey, Delaware, and Maryland).
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Minjiang dialect
Minjiang dialect, is a branch of Sichuanese, spoken mainly in the Min River (Mínjiāng) valley or along the Yangtze in the southern and western parts of the Sichuan Basin.
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Modern English
Modern English (sometimes New English or NE as opposed to Middle English and Old English) is the form of the English language spoken since the Great Vowel Shift in England, which began in the late 14th century and was completed in roughly 1550.
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Munster Irish
Munster Irish is the dialect of the Irish language spoken in the province of Munster.
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Near-open vowel
A near-open vowel or a near-low vowel is any in a class of vowel sound used in some spoken languages.
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New Jersey English
Despite popular stereotypes in the media that there is a singular New Jersey accent, there are in fact several distinct accents native to the U.S. state of New Jersey,Donohue, Brian; Sirling, Steve.
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Old Chinese phonology
Scholars have attempted to reconstruct the phonology of Old Chinese from documentary evidence.
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Old Irish
Old Irish (Goídelc; Sean-Ghaeilge; Seann Ghàidhlig; Shenn Yernish; sometimes called Old Gaelic) is the name given to the oldest form of the Goidelic languages for which extensive written texts are extant.
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Permic languages
The Permic languages are a branch of the Uralic language family.
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Phonological history of English
The phonological history of English describes the changing phonology of the English language over time, starting from its roots in proto-Germanic to diverse changes in different dialects of modern English.
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Phonological history of English high back vowels
Most dialects of modern English have two high back vowels: the near-close near-back rounded vowel found in words like foot, and the close back rounded vowel (realized as central in many dialects) found in words like goose.
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Phonological history of English high front vowels
The high and mid-height front vowels of English (vowels of i and e type) have undergone a variety of changes over time, often varying from dialect to dialect.
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Phonological history of English vowels
In the history of English phonology, there were many diachronic sound changes affecting vowels, especially involving phonemic splits and mergers.
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Pronunciation of English ⟨a⟩
There are a variety of pronunciations in modern English and in historical forms of the language for words spelt with the a.
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Proto-Berber language
Proto-Berber is the reconstructed proto-language from which the modern Berber languages stem.
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Proto-Circassian language
Proto-Circassian (or Proto-Adyghe–Kabardian) is the reconstructed common ancestor of the Adyghean and Kabardian languages.
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Quebec French
Québec French (français québécois; also known as Québécois French or simply Québécois) is the predominant variety of the French language in Canada, in its formal and informal registers.
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Second-language phonology
The phonology of second languages is different from the phonology of first languages in various ways.
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Selkup language
Selkup language is the language of the Selkups, belonging to the Samoyedic group of the Uralic language family.
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Sichuanese dialects
Sichuanese (Sichuanese Pinyin: Si4cuan1hua4), or Sichuanese/Szechwanese Mandarin, commonly known as Sichuanese, or Szechwanese is a branch of Southwestern Mandarin, spoken mainly in Sichuan and Chongqing, which was part of Sichuan Province until 1997, and the adjacent regions of their neighboring provinces, such as Hubei, Guizhou, Yunnan, Hunan and Shaanxi.
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Silent e
In English orthography, many words feature a silent, most commonly at the end of a word or morpheme.
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Southern American English
Southern American English or Southern U.S. English is a large collection of related American English dialects spoken throughout the Southern United States, though increasingly in more rural areas and primarily by white Americans.
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Standard German phonology
The phonology of Standard German is the standard pronunciation or accent of the German language.
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Stress and vowel reduction in English
Stress is a prominent feature of the English language, both at the level of the word (lexical stress) and at the level of the phrase or sentence (prosodic stress).
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Syllable
A syllable is a unit of organization for a sequence of speech sounds.
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Tense
Tense may refer to.
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Tensing
Tensing may refer to.
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Tension
Tension may refer to.
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Tlingit language
The Tlingit language (Lingít) is spoken by the Tlingit people of Southeast Alaska and Western Canada.
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Transcription into Japanese
In contemporary Japanese writing, foreign-language loanwords and foreign names are normally written in the katakana script, which is one component of the Japanese writing system.
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Tungusic languages
The Tungusic languages (also known as Manchu-Tungus, Tungus) form a language family spoken in Eastern Siberia and northeast China by Tungusic peoples.
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Uvular ejective
The uvular ejective is a type of consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages.
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Voice (phonetics)
Voice is a term used in phonetics and phonology to characterize speech sounds (usually consonants).
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Voiceless alveolar fricative
A voiceless alveolar fricative is a type of fricative consonant pronounced with the tip or blade of the tongue against the alveolar ridge (gum line) just behind the teeth.
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Voiceless bilabial stop
The voiceless bilabial stop is a type of consonantal sound used in many spoken languages.
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Voiceless uvular fricative
The voiceless uvular fricative is a type of consonantal sound used in some spoken languages.
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Vowel
A vowel is one of the two principal classes of speech sound, the other being a consonant.
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Vowel length
In linguistics, vowel length is the perceived duration of a vowel sound.
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Western New England English
Western New England English refers to the varieties of New England English native to Vermont, Connecticut, and the western half of Massachusetts; New York State's Hudson Valley (from Albany to Poughkeepsie) also aligns to this classification.
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Yaghan language
Yagán (originally Yahgan, but also now spelled Yaghan, Jagan, Iakan), also known as Yámana and Háusi Kúta, is one of the indigenous languages of Tierra del Fuego, spoken by the Yagán people.
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Zainichi Korean language
Zainichi Korean is Korean as spoken by Zainichi Koreans (ethnic Korean citizens or residents of Japan).
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tenseness
