User:Americanus/language
This page is about language and includes a bunch of articles about language and the English language in particular.
- Linguistics - the study of language
- Linguistic universal - things common to all human languages
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- Phonology - the study of the sounds in a spoken language
- Phonotactic - Rules of a language as to what sounds can be used
- International phonetic alphabet - alphabet of all possible sounds
- Phonetics - the study of human made sounds
- Articulatory phonetics - where the sounds are made
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- English phonology - the rules and sounds of the English language
- English pronunciation - interesting description of which sounds can go where
- General American - pronunciation table for USA
- American English - with various pronunciation rules
- English language - ideas on stress and alternate meanings
- IPA chart for English - very nice IPA chart for English
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- Voice (phonetics) - list of voiced and voiceless consonants
- Sorority Sequencing Principle - quiet to loud vowel to quiet creates a single syllable
- Sonority Hierarchy - how loud the various sounds
- Sonorant - a sound that can be held continuously
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- Segment - smallest discrete bit of sound in a conversation
- Syllable - a vowel sound and any association consonant sounds that comprise a word or part of a word
- Vowel - a sound made with the vocal cords that comprises the middle of a syllable
- Consonant - a sound tied to a vowel
- Consonant cluster - groups of consonant in a row, between vowel sounds
- Phoneme - a group of very similar sounds that are considered to be the same or equivalent in a spoken language
- Phone - a single speech sound
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- Verb_Object_Agent - apparently the most rare of the six possible orderings of agent verb and object
- Writing Systems
- List_of_writing_systems