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  2. Medial - Wikipedia

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    Medial capitals or CamelCase, use of capital letters in the middle of a compound word or abbreviation; Mid vowel, a vowel sound pronounced with the tongue midway between open and closed vowel positions; Medial s <ſ>, a form of the letter s written in the middle of a word; Human anatomical terms § Standard terms; All pages with titles ...

  3. Initial sound table - Wikipedia

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    An initial sound table (German: Anlauttabel) is a table, list or chart which shows a letter together with a picture of the things whose word start with that letter.They are commonly used in German classrooms for language teaching.

  4. Australian English phonology - Wikipedia

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    Some speakers use a glottal stop [ʔ] as an allophone of /t/ in final position, for example trait, habit; or in medial position, such as a /t/ followed by a syllabic /n/ is often realized as a glottal stop, for example button or fatten. Alveolar pronunciations nevertheless predominate. Pronunciation of /l/

  5. English orthography - Wikipedia

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    The same letter (or sequence of letters) may be pronounced differently when occurring in different positions within a word. For instance, gh represents /f/ at the end of some words ( tough / t ʌ f / ) but not in others ( plough / p l aʊ / ).

  6. Arabic alphabet - Wikipedia

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    The Arabic alphabet is always cursive and letters vary in shape depending on their position within a word. Letters can exhibit up to four distinct forms corresponding to an initial, medial (middle), final, or isolated position . While some letters show considerable variations, others remain almost identical across all four positions.

  7. Voiced dental and alveolar taps and flaps - Wikipedia

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    The distinction is noticeable in the speech of some American English speakers in distinguishing the words "potty" (tap [ɾ]) and "party" (retroflex ). For linguists who do not make the distinction, alveolars and dentals are typically called taps and other articulations flaps .

  8. Phoneme - Wikipedia

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    The position of the stress distinguishes the words and so a full phonemic specification would include indication of the position of the stress: /ɪnˈvaɪt/ for the verb, /ˈɪnvaɪt/ for the noun. In other languages, such as French , word stress cannot have this function (its position is generally predictable) and so it is not phonemic (and ...

  9. Phonological history of English consonants - Wikipedia

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    The word salve is often pronounced with the /l/; the name Ralph may be /rælf/, /rɑːlf/, /rɑːf/ or /reɪf/. Words like solve were not affected, although golf dropped the /l/ in some British accents. Words with /alm/ and /olm/, which lost the /l/ and lengthened the vowel (the lengthened [oː] later becoming diphthongized in the toe–tow ...