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• Phonological hierarchy — describes a series of increasingly smaller regions of a phonological utterance. From larger to smaller units, it is as follows:#Utterance #Prosodic declination unit (DU) / intonational phrase (I phrase) #Prosodic intonation unit (IU) /… …   Wikipedia

• Phonological change — Sound change and alternation Metathesis Quantitative metathesis …   Wikipedia

• Phonological history of English consonant clusters — The phonological history of English consonant clusters is part of the phonological history of the English language in terms of changes in the phonology of consonant clusters. Contents 1 H cluster reductions 1.1 Wh cluster reductions 1.2 Yew–hew… …   Wikipedia

• Phonological history of English consonants — The phonological history of English consonants is part of the phonological history of the English language in terms of changes in the phonology of consonants. Contents 1 Consonant clusters 1.1 H cluster reductions 1.2 Y cluster reductions …   Wikipedia

• Phonological history of English low back vowels — The phonology of the low back vowels of the English language has undergone changes both overall and with regional variations, dating from Late Middle English (c. 1400) to the present. The sound changes heard in modern English mostly begin with… …   Wikipedia

• Phonological history of English high back vowels — Most dialects of modern English have two high back vowels: the close back rounded vowel /u/ found in words like goose, and the near close near back rounded vowel /ʊ/ found in words like foot. This article discusses the history of these vowels in… …   Wikipedia

• Phonological history of English fricatives and affricates — The phonological history of English fricatives and affricates is part of the phonological history of the English language in terms of changes in the phonology of fricative and affricate consonants. Contents 1 H dropping and h adding 1.1 H… …   Wikipedia

• Phonological history of English high front vowels — The high front vowels of English have undergone a variety of changes over time, which may vary from dialect to dialect. Contents 1 Weak vowel merger 2 Kit–bit split 3 Pin–pen merger …   Wikipedia

• Phonological history of English diphthongs — Note: This article deals with sound changes involving English language diphthongs. Each of the following sound changes involved at least one phoneme which historically was a diphthong. The sound changes discussed here may also have involved a… …   Wikipedia

• Distinctive feature — In linguistics, a distinctive feature is the most basic unit of phonological structure that may be analyzed in phonological theory. Distinctive features are grouped into categories according to the natural classes of segments they describe: major …   Wikipedia

• distinctive feature — noun an odd or unusual characteristic • Syn: ↑peculiarity, ↑distinguishing characteristic • Hypernyms: ↑feature, ↑characteristic • Hyponyms: ↑calling card * * * Ling …   Useful english dictionary