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  2. Vowel-consonant harmony - Wikipedia

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    A common process is a local harmony known as nasal harmony, in which all sounds in a given domain agree in nasality. Epena Pedee involves nasal vowels being the trigger, the direction being progressive and affecting glottals , vowels, glides , and liquids within the domain, with obstruents and the alveolar trill being the blockers.

  3. Phonological development - Wikipedia

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    Phonological development refers to how children learn to organize sounds into meaning or language during their stages of growth. Sound is at the beginning of language learning. Children have to learn to distinguish different sounds and to segment the speech stream they are exposed to into units – eventually meaningful units – in order to ...

  4. Vowel harmony - Wikipedia

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    In phonology, vowel harmony is a phonological rule in which the vowels of a given domain – typically a phonological word – must share certain distinctive features (thus "in harmony"). Vowel harmony is typically long distance, meaning that the affected vowels do not need to be immediately adjacent, and there can be intervening segments ...

  5. Old English phonology - Wikipedia

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    Hogg 2011 considers the lowering of the second element of diphthongs to be related to the development of unstressed vowel qualities; while acknowledging that the height of the first element affected the outcome of the second, Hogg rejects height harmony as an overarching principle, and supposes that io came to be pronounced [io] in Old English ...

  6. Government phonology - Wikipedia

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    Government Phonology (GP) is a theoretical framework of linguistics, and more specifically of phonology.The framework aims to provide a non-arbitrary account for phonological phenomena by replacing the rule component of SPE-type phonology with well-formedness constraints on representations.

  7. Vowel breaking - Wikipedia

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    In Old English, two forms of harmonic vowel breaking occurred: breaking and retraction and back mutation.. In prehistoric Old English, breaking and retraction changed stressed short and long front vowels i, e, æ to short and long diphthongs spelled io, eo, ea when followed by h or by r, l + another consonant (short vowels only), and sometimes w (only for certain short vowels): [3]

  8. Autosegmental phonology - Wikipedia

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    Autosegmental phonology is a framework of phonological analysis proposed by John Goldsmith in his PhD thesis in 1976 at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).. As a theory of phonological representation, autosegmental phonology developed a formal account of ideas that had been sketched in earlier work by several linguists, notably Bernard Bloch (1948), Charles Hockett (1955) and J. R ...

  9. Phonemic awareness - Wikipedia

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    Phonemic awareness and phonological awareness are often confused since they are interdependent. Phonemic awareness is the ability to hear and manipulate individual phonemes. Phonological awareness includes this ability, but it also includes the ability to hear and manipulate larger units of sound, such as onsets and rimes and syllables.