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consonant.noun
a speech sound produced by a partial or complete
obstruction of the air stream by any of various constrictions of the speech
organs; a letter or character representing such a speech sound
definite article.noun
a member of the class of determiners that restrict
or particularize a noun.
In English, 'the' is the definite article
diphthong.noun
Linguistics – a complex
speech sound or glide that begins with one vowel and
gradually changes to another vowel within the same syllable,
as (oi) in boil or in fine
diphthongal.adjective
interjection
a sudden, short utterance; an ejaculation; a part
of speech usually expressing emotion and capable of standing alone, such
as Ugh! or Wow!
interjectional.adjective
interjectionally.adverb
morpheme.noun
Linguistics – a meaningful
linguistic unit consisting of a word, such as man, or a word element, such
as -ed in walked, that cannot be divided into smaller meaningful parts
morphemic.adjective
morphemically.adverb
phonetic.adjective
Linguistics – of
or relating to phonetics; representing the sounds
of speech with a set of distinct symbols, each designating a single sound
(phonetic spelling); of, relating to, or being features of pronunciation
that are not phonemically distinctive in a language, as aspiration of consonants
or vowel length in English
phonetical.adjective
phonetically.adverb
phonemic.adjective
Linguistics – of
or relating to phonemes; of or relating to phonemics; serving to distinguish
phonemes or distinctive features
phonemically.adverb
phonemics.noun
Linguistics – the
study and establishment of the phonemes of a language phonemicist.noun
phoneme.noun
Linguistics – the
smallest phonetic unit in a language that is capable of conveying a distinction
in meaning, as the m of mat and the b of bat in English
phonetics.noun
Linguistics – the
branch of linguistics
that deals with the sounds of speech and their production, combination,
description, and representation by written symbols; the system of sounds
of a particular language
syllabic.adjective
Linguistics.-.of,
relating to, or consisting of a syllable or syllables; designating
a consonant that forms a syllable without a vowel,
such as the (i) in the word riddle; pronounced with every syllable distinct;
of or being a form of verse based on the number of syllables in a line
rather than on the arrangement of accents or quantities
syllabic.noun
Linguistics.-.a
syllabic sound
syllabically.adverb
syllable.noun
Linguistics – a unit
of spoken language consisting of a single uninterrupted sound formed by
a
vowel,
diphthong, or syllabic
consonant
alone, or by any of these sounds preceded, followed, or surrounded by one
or more consonants; one or more letters or phonetic
symbols written or printed to approximate a spoken syllable
syllable, syllabled, syllabling,
syllables.transitive
verbs
Linguistics – to
pronounce in syllables
vowel.noun
a letter, such as a, e, i, o, u, and sometimes
y in the English alphabet, that represents a vowel
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