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  2. Diplopia - Wikipedia

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    Diplopia. Diplopia. Other names. Double vision. One way a person might experience double vision. Specialty. Neurology, ophthalmology. Diplopia is the simultaneous perception of two images of a single object that may be displaced horizontally or vertically in relation to each other. [ 1] Also called double vision, it is a loss of visual focus ...

  3. Speech sound disorder - Wikipedia

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    A speech sound disorder ( SSD) is a speech disorder affecting the ability to pronounce speech sounds, which includes speech articulation disorders and phonemic disorders, the latter referring to some sounds ( phonemes) not being produced or used correctly. The term "protracted phonological development" is sometimes preferred when describing ...

  4. Diphthong - Wikipedia

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    A diphthong ( / ˈdɪfθɒŋ, ˈdɪp -/ DIF-thong, DIP-; [ 1] from Ancient Greek δίφθογγος (díphthongos) 'two sounds', from δίς (dís) 'twice' and φθόγγος (phthóngos) 'sound'), also known as a gliding vowel or a vowel glide, is a combination of two adjacent vowel sounds within the same syllable. [ 2] Technically, a ...

  5. Ghoti - Wikipedia

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    The word is intended to be pronounced in the same way as fish (/ f ɪ ʃ /), using these sounds: . gh, pronounced / f / as in enough / ɪ ˈ n ʌ f / or tough / t ʌ f /;; o, pronounced / ɪ / as in women / ˈ w ɪ m ɪ n /;

  6. English phonology - Wikipedia

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    A phoneme of a language or dialect is an abstraction of a speech sound or of a group of different sounds that are all perceived to have the same function by speakers of that particular language or dialect. For example, the English word through consists of three phonemes: the initial "th" sound, the "r" sound, and a vowel sound.

  7. American and British English pronunciation differences

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    Multiple differences. Older Americans may use the British pronunciation, and some British dialects use the American pronunciation. BrE approximates more to French [aʒaksjo]; AmE reflects the word's Italian origin [aˈjattʃo] . The original Portuguese pronunciation is [alˈɣaɾvɨ] .

  8. Pronunciation of English a - Wikipedia

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    There are a variety of pronunciations in Modern English and in historical forms of the language for words spelled with the letter a . Most of these go back to the low vowel (the "short A") of earlier Middle English, which later developed both long and short forms. The sound of the long vowel was altered in the Great Vowel Shift, but later a new ...

  9. Hungarian phonology - Wikipedia

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    They are used in the name of the letters E and A, which are pronounced /ɛː/ and /ɒː/, respectively. [9] The adjective fair (as 'equitable') is pronounced in Hungarian with /ɛː/ (it may also be short, though). This sound occurs as an alternative in erre 'this way' (instead of doubling the /r/), just like /ɒː/ in arra 'that way'.