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Minjiang dialect (404 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

syllables in Middle Chinese have developed into tense vowels to create a phonemic contrast, and in several cities and counties the tense vowels retain a following

Bolivian Spanish (725 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

the neighboring countries. Throughout Bolivia the preservation of phonemic contrast between /ʝ/ and the lateral /ʎ/ (i.e. the absence of yeísmo) is the

Voiced bilabial fricative (1,275 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

general acceptance. It is extremely rare for a language to make a phonemic contrast between the voiced bilabial fricative and the bilabial approximant

Izi language (1,752 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

two-way phonemic contrast after a low tone. Thus, a low tone may be followed by another low tone or a high tone. A three-way phonemic contrast exists after

Shixing language (459 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

(autonym: ʂuhĩ) Lower Xumi (autonym: ʃʉhẽ) Xumi features a very unusual phonemic contrast between voiceless /ʎ̥/ and voiced /ʎ/ alveolo-palatal lateral approximants

Bay Islands English (836 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

/ə/ and variably with [β] in all other environments. However, the phonemic contrast in Bay Island English is generally neutralized in all environments

Mapos Buang language (182 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Austronesian languages.[citation needed] Notable is the existence of a phonemic contrast between a velar nasal and a uvular nasal, which is extremely rare

Siouan languages (1,287 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

S2CID 197656511. Some Siouan languages have however developed a phonemic contrast between the non-nasal sonorants w- and r- and the corresponding nasals

Daoism–Taoism romanization issue (2,315 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Chinese aspirated /tʰ/ vs. unaspirated /t/ phonemic contrast and English voiced /d/ vs. unvoiced /t/ phonemic contrast, an English speaker who is unfamiliar

Wajarri language (442 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Douglas (1981) claimed that there was no laminal contrast (i.e. no phonemic contrast between the dentals and palatals), Marmion (1996) demonstrated that

Khmu language (916 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

voiceless, and pre-glottalized) in the syllable-initial position for phonemic contrast. Suwilai Premsrirat (2002) reports the following locations and dialects

Sulka language (1,618 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

SVO and prepositions Phonology Phonemic inventory resembles Mengen phonemic contrast [l] and [r] Resembles Kol (almost) all consonants occur word-finally

Zellig Harris (7,201 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

approach, and, indeed, making it possible, is Harris's recognition that phonemic contrast cannot be derived from distributional analysis of phonetic notations

Spanish language (16,244 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

maintain a phonemic contrast between plosive (or affricate) and fricative, the voiced ones alternate allophonically (i.e. without phonemic contrast) between

Khmu people (2,520 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

voiceless, and pre-glottalized) in the syllable-initial position for phonemic contrast. Although Khmu language use among peers is currently fairly vigorous

Yakkha language (2,012 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Variation between short and long vowels is possible, but this is not a phonemic contrast, because no minimal pairs can be found. Diphthongs such as [oi̯],

Cornish phonology (5,249 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

a second rounded front vowel /œ/, an additional vowel /o/, and a phonemic contrast between /i/ and /ɪ/. Also Kernewek Kemmyn is characterised by phonemic

Erzya language (1,607 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Alphabet). /f/ and /x/ are loan phonemes from Russian. There is a phonemic contrast between /n/ and /ŋ/, despite that they share the standard spelling

Havasupai–Hualapai language (2,082 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

the language. The following is a minimal pair illustrating of the phonemic contrast of Havasupai-Hualapai vowel length: pa:ʔ 'person' vs. paʔ 'arrow'

Orsmaal-Gussenhoven dialect phonology (2,122 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

neutralized before /r/ in favor of the former, mirroring the lack of phonemic contrast in Standard Dutch. Stressed short vowels cannot occur in open syllables

Wade–Giles (2,366 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

not originally carry the medial [w]. Peking dialect does not have phonemic contrast between o and -uo/wo (except in interjections when used alone) and

Gulf Arabic (2,139 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

or four short monophthongs. Two recent studies point to a lack of phonemic contrast between [i] and [u], and Shockley (2020) argues that backness is not

Jämtland dialects (1,209 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

the neighbouring Saami languages in medieval times. The Old Norse phonemic contrast of light and heavy syllables is partly preserved in eastern Jämtland

California English (3,572 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

preceding /ŋ/ are historically short, this does not lead to a loss of phonemic contrast. Before /n/ or /m/ (as in ran or ram), /æ/ is raised and diphthongized

Nuxalk language (2,797 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Miyako. The linguist Hank Nater has postulated the existence of a phonemic contrast between syllabic and non-syllabic sonorants: /m̩, n̩, l̩/, spelled

Close central unrounded vowel (2,001 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

phoneme in the indigenous languages of the Americas and is often in phonemic contrast with other close vowels such as /i/ and /u/ both in modern living

Nahuatl orthography (2,469 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

of Nahuatl as follows. The four vowels are written a, e, i, o. The phonemic contrast between short and long vowels is left unmarked. The stops /p/ and

Scottish Gaelic phonology and orthography (2,944 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

exist for all speakers. Labial consonants /m p b f v/ do not make a phonemic contrast between broad and slender, though before or after back vowels, historic

Aymara language (4,439 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

articulation. Stops show no distinction of voice (e.g. there is no phonemic contrast between [p] and [b]), but each stop occurs in three laryngeal settings:

Hopi language (3,535 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

it has a backed articulation: ⟨kö⟩ is [ḵø]. Before /a/, there is a phonemic contrast with fronted velar with following palatal glide and the backed velar

Gurmukhi (5,605 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Sanskrit sounds /ʂə/ and /kʰə/ merged into /kʰə/ in Punjabi. Any phonemic contrast was lost, with no distinct character for [ṣa] remaining. Similarly

Saraiki language (4,548 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

northeastern Jhangi dialect, which is characterised by a lack of phonemic contrast between implosives and plain stops, and a preference for implosives

Finnish phonology (4,486 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

diphthongization and diphthong reduction. For example, Savo Finnish has the phonemic contrast of /ɑ/ vs. /uɑ̯/ vs. /ɑɑ/ instead of standard language contrast of

Ulster Irish (4,648 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

[vˠ] is found instead of or in addition to [w]. No dialect makes a phonemic contrast between the approximant and the fricative, however. There is a three-way

Fuqing dialect (3,972 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

the mainstream pronunciation; some pronounce it as [s]. There is no phonemic contrast between the two.: 28 [ts], [tsʰ] and [s] palatalize to [tɕ], [tɕʰ]

Ixcatec language (3,806 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

denoted with /rr/. However, Veerman (2001) argues that there is no phonemic contrast between the two. Most consonant groupings contain one of the following

Philadelphia English (5,565 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Karen, Mark; Miller, Corey (1991). Near-mergers and the suspension of phonemic contrast. Vol. 3. pp. 33–74. {{cite book}}: |work= ignored (help) Labov, William;

French phonology (5,206 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

substrate, where pot and peau are still opposed as /pɔ/ and /po/. The phonemic contrast between front /a/ and back /ɑ/ is sometimes no longer maintained in

Erzgebirgisch (2,938 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

corresponding character used in this article. No subdialect shows phonemic contrast between postalveolar [tʃ, ʃ]) and retroflex [tʂ, ʂ]; they have one

Slovene phonology (5,041 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

appears in the very same position that would permit /ʌ/, leading to a phonemic contrast: pas [ˈpâs], not [ˈpʌ̂s], 'belt'. Jurgec also states that in the tonemic

Swampy Cree language (3,131 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

loanwords and influence from Moose Cree. Loanwords Voicing does not cause phonemic contrast in Swampy Cree. According to Ellis, however, stops often undergo voicing

Scottish Gaelic (11,631 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

historically voiced stops [b d̪ ɡ] have lost their voicing, so the phonemic contrast today is between unaspirated [p t̪ k] and aspirated [pʰ t̪ʰ kʰ]. In

Mongolian language (12,037 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

syllable's position in the word. In word-initial syllables, there is a phonemic contrast in vowel length. A long vowel has about 208% the length of a short

Afroasiatic languages (10,900 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

glottal stop (ʔ) usually exists as a phoneme, and there tends to be no phonemic contrast between [p] and [f] or [b] and [v]. In Cushitic, the Ethiopian Semitic

English phonology (12,254 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

accents of English sung is pronounced [sʌŋ], producing a three-way phonemic contrast sum – sun – sung /sʌm sʌn sʌŋ/ and supporting the analysis of the

Russian phonology (8,573 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

suggests that the velarized gesture is only used with laterals giving a phonemic contrast between /lʲ/ and /ɫ/ (...)." Padgett 2003b, p. 319. Because of the

Romance languages (16,441 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

is a long /zz/, ss's is a long /ss/, and t't is a long /tt/. The phonemic contrast between geminate and single consonants is widespread in Italian, and

Spanish dialects and varieties (9,841 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Islands, the Philippines and much of Andalusia. The maintenance of phonemic contrast is called distinción in Spanish. In areas that do not distinguish

English as a second or foreign language (13,266 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

('thee'), both written as th, are relatively rare in other languages. Phonemic contrast of /i/ with /ɪ/ (beat vs bit vowels), of /u/ with /ʊ/ (fool vs full

Dutch phonology (7,526 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

to [aɪ, aʏ, aʊ], a phenomenon termed Polder Dutch. Therefore, the phonemic contrast between /eː, øː, oː/ and /ɛi, œy, ɔu/ is still strongly maintained

Speech perception (8,168 words) [view diff] case mismatch in snippet view article find links to article

Processes in Infants during the Acquisition of a Language-Specific Phonemic Contrast". The Journal of Neuroscience. 27 (2): 315–321. doi:10.1523/JNEUROSCI

Weert dialect (2,812 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Older speakers may have an additional vowel /o/, giving rise to a phonemic contrast between the short closed O /o/ (spelled ⟨ó⟩) and the short open O