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