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Tone (linguistics) — Not to be confused with intonation (linguistics). Top tone ◌̋ ˥ … Wikipedia
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Jan-Olof Svantesson — is a professor of Linguistics at Lund University, Sweden. Svantesson wrote his doctoral dissertation in 1983 on the phonology and morphology of the Kammu language, and has has written a book about modern Mongolian phonology and the historical… … Wikipedia
Michael E. Krauss — Michael Krauss (standing) at Eskimo Language Workshop (ca. 1970) Michael E. Krauss (born August 15, 1934) is a linguist who has worked extensively on the Na Dené language family, especially on proto Athabaskan, pre proto Athabaskan, the Eyak… … Wikipedia
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Cheshirization — Sound change and alternation Metathesis Quantitative metathesis … Wikipedia
Sino-Tibetan languages — Sino Tibetan Geographic distribution: East Asia Linguistic classification: One of the world s major language families. Subdivisions: Sinitic Tibeto Burman ISO 639 … Wikipedia
Sound change — includes any processes of language change that affect pronunciation (phonetic change) or sound system structures (phonological change). Sound change can consist of the replacement of one speech sound (or, more generally, one phonetic feature) by… … Wikipedia
Elision — For other uses, see Elision (disambiguation). Elider redirects here. For the fantasy novel, see Elidor. Sound change and alternation Metathesis Quantitative metathesis … Wikipedia
Metathesis (linguistics) — Sound change and alternation Metathesis Quantitative metathesis … Wikipedia