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  2. Category:Splits and mergers in English phonology - Wikipedia

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    A split in phonology is where a once identical phoneme diverges in different instances. A merger is the opposite: where two (or more) phonemes merge and become indistinguishable. In English , this happens most often with vowels, although not exclusively.

  3. Contronym - Wikipedia

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    Hindi: कल and Urdu: کل (kal) may mean either "yesterday" or "tomorrow" (disambiguated by the verb in the sentence).; Icelandic: fram eftir can mean "toward the sea" or "away from the sea" depending on dialect.

  4. Blend word - Wikipedia

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    These usages help to create distinguishable trademarks. It is a common occurrence for people with two names to combine them into a single nickname, like Juanca for Juan Carlos, Or Marilú for María de Lourdes. Other examples: Cantautor 'singer-songwriter', from cantante 'singer' and autor 'songwriter'. [63]

  5. Phonological history of English close back vowels - Wikipedia

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    (See the table in the section "FOOT – STRUT split" above for more information about these early shifts.) [note 1] The final step, however, was for certain English dialects under the influence of foreign languages (the Scots language influencing Scottish English, for example) [citation needed] to merge the newly united /ʊ/ vowel with the /uː ...

  6. Merge (linguistics) - Wikipedia

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    In terms of a merge-base theory of language acquisition, complements and specifiers are simply notations for first-merge (read as "complement-of" [head-complement]), and later second-merge (read as "specifier-of" [specifier-head]), with merge always forming to a head. First-merge establishes only a set {a, b} and is not an ordered pair.

  7. Grammar - Wikipedia

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    The word grammar is derived from Greek γραμματικὴ τέχνη (grammatikḕ téchnē), which means "art of letters", from γράμμα (grámma), "letter", itself from γράφειν (gráphein), "to draw, to write". [3]

  8. Ardhanarishvara - Wikipedia

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    Ardhanarishvara is depicted as half-male and half-female, equally split down the middle. Ardhanarishvara represents the synthesis of masculine and feminine energies of the universe ( Purusha and Prakriti ) and illustrates how Shakti , the female principle of God, is inseparable from (or the same as, according to some interpretations) Shiva, the ...

  9. Help:Merging and moving pages - Wikipedia

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    Merging and moving are two fundamental aspects of how articles are developed, structured, and reformed on Wikipedia.A merger is a non-automated process by which two similar or redundant pages are united on one page.