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Trump’s style of speaking is conversational, and may even stem from his New York City upbringing. As George Lakoff, a linguist at UC Berkeley, told me, “ [The] thing about being a New Yorker ...
- 2016 Presidential Election
Coverage of the 2016 presidential election. The New...
- 2016 Presidential Election
Oct 25, 2024 · With less than two weeks of campaigning left, Vice President Kamala Harris is increasingly trying to use Trump’s words against him. At rallies, she has started playing clips of him speaking and ...
An example in Vietnamese is the letters ă and â representing lax vowels, and the letters a and ơ representing the corresponding tense vowels. Some languages like Spanish are often considered as having only tense vowels, but since the quality of tenseness is not a phonemic feature in this language, it cannot be applied to describe its vowels in any meaningful way.
An alternative analysis [10] proposes that the "tensed" series of sounds are (fundamentally) regular voiceless, unaspirated consonants: the "lax" sounds are voiced consonants that become devoiced initially, and the primary distinguishing feature between word-initial "lax" and "tensed" consonants is that initial lax sounds cause the following vowel to assume a low-to-high pitch contour, a ...
Trisyllabic laxing is a process which has occurred at various periods in the history of English: The earliest occurrence of trisyllabic laxing occurred in late Old English and caused stressed long vowels to become shortened before clusters of two consonants when two or more syllables followed. Later in Middle English, the process was expanded ...
Contrasts between two vowels on the basis of tenseness, and even phonemic contrasts, are common in many languages, including English.For example, in most English dialects, beet and bit are contrasted by the vowel sound being tense in the first word but not the second; i.e., / iː / (as in beet) is the tense counterpart to the lax / ɪ / (as in bit); the same is true of / uː / (as in kook ...
string of speech sounds (phonemes); two items distinct if they differ in length or position. each phoneme is composed of a matrix of feature specifications. features are typically binary: [±Feature] features have articulatory and acoustic correlates representing the grammatically controlled aspects of the sound implemented in the phonetic ...
