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  2. R-colored vowel - Wikipedia

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    [citation needed] Certain post-grunge singers made heavy use of this technique to such an extent that many people derisively exaggerated this tendency when referencing their music. In certain particular cases, a vowel + /r/ is pronounced instead as two syllables: a non-rhotic vowel followed by a syllabic /r/. [citation needed]

  3. Epenthesis - Wikipedia

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    The three short syllables in reliquiās do not fit into dactylic hexameter because of the dactyl's limit of two short syllables so the first syllable is lengthened by adding another l. However, the pronunciation was often not written with double ll , and may have been the normal way of pronouncing a word starting in rel- rather than a poetic ...

  4. Music therapy for non-fluent aphasia - Wikipedia

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    Therefore, rhythmic components in music therapy might explain why music therapy can benefit non-fluent aphasic patients. One example is the left-hand tapping used in Melodic Intonation Therapy (MIT). Since this technique also serves as a way to stimulate the right hemisphere, Schlaug et al. [ 7 ] speculate that left-hand tapping may favor ...

  5. Tone (linguistics) - Wikipedia

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    Tone is the use of pitch in language to distinguish lexical or grammatical meaning—that is, to distinguish or to inflect words. [1] All oral languages use pitch to express emotional and other para-linguistic information and to convey emphasis, contrast and other such features in what is called intonation, but not all languages use tones to distinguish words or their inflections, analogously ...

  6. Nordoff–Robbins music therapy - Wikipedia

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    The Nordoff–Robbins approach to music therapy is a method developed to help children with psychological, physical, or developmental disabilities. [1] It originated from the 17-year collaboration of Paul Nordoff and Clive Robbins, [2] which began in 1958 [3] with early influences from Rudolph Steiner and anthroposophical philosophy and teachings. [4]

  7. Extensions to the International Phonetic Alphabet - Wikipedia

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    The Extensions to the International Phonetic Alphabet for Disordered Speech, commonly abbreviated extIPA / ɛ k ˈ s t aɪ p ə /, [1] are a set of letters and diacritics devised by the International Clinical Phonetics and Linguistics Association to augment the International Phonetic Alphabet for the phonetic transcription of disordered speech.

  8. Diphthong - Wikipedia

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    If two vowels next to each other belong to two different syllables , meaning that they do not form a diphthong, they can be transcribed with two vowel symbols with a period in between. Thus, lower can be transcribed ˈloʊ.ɚ , with a period separating the first syllable, / l oʊ /, from the second syllable, ɚ .

  9. Metathesis (linguistics) - Wikipedia

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    Metathesis of liquid consonants is an important historical change during the development of the Slavic languages: a syllable-final liquid (*r or *l), always preceded by a short vowel (*e or *o), metathesized to become syllable-initial. However, the exact outcome of the change varies across the different Slavic languages.