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  2. Backward speech - Wikipedia

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    The trait of backward speech is described as an ability to spontaneously and accurately reverse words. Two strategies of word reversal were reported: reversal according to the phonetic structure of the words or reversal according to their spelling . [ 1 ]

  3. Phonetic reversal - Wikipedia

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    This is because pronunciation in speech causes a reversed diphthong to sound different in either direction (e.g. eye [aɪ] becoming yah [jɑː]), or differently articulate a consonant depending on where it lies in a word, hence creating an imperfect reversal.

  4. Reverse speech - Wikipedia

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    Reverse speech is a pseudoscientific topic [1] [2] [3] first advocated by David John Oates which gained publicity when it was mentioned on Art Bell's nightly Coast to Coast AM radio talk show. [4] It is based upon the theory that during spoken language production , human speakers subconsciously produce hidden messages that give insights into ...

  5. English grammar - Wikipedia

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    The first published English grammar was a Pamphlet for Grammar of 1586, written by William Bullokar with the stated goal of demonstrating that English was just as rule-based as Latin. Bullokar's grammar was faithfully modeled on William Lily's Latin grammar, Rudimenta Grammatices (1534), used in English schools at that time, having been ...

  6. Talking backwards - Wikipedia

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    Talking backwards may refer to: Phonetic reversal , the art of reversing the phonemes or phones of a word or phrase Ingressive speech , the process of talking while inhaling rather than exhaling

  7. Quotation marks in English - Wikipedia

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    In English writing, quotation marks or inverted commas, also known informally as quotes, talking marks, [1] [2] speech marks, [3] quote marks, quotemarks or speechmarks, are punctuation marks placed on either side of a word or phrase in order to identify it as a quotation, direct speech or a literal title or name.

  8. Back-chaining - Wikipedia

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    Back-chaining is a technique used in teaching oral language skills, especially with polysyllabic or difficult words and phrases. [1] The teacher pronounces the last syllable, the student repeats, and then the teacher continues, working backwards from the end of the word to the beginning.

  9. Inversion (linguistics) - Wikipedia

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    In the English examples, the verb roll agrees in number with cars, implying that the latter is still the syntactic subject of the sentence, despite being in a noncanonical subject position. However, in the Zulu example of locative inversion, it is the noun isikole , "school" that controls subject-verb agreement, despite not being the semantic ...