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2. Phonological history of English consonants - Wikipedia

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   Reduction of /ts/ to /s/ – a Middle English reduction that produced the modern sound of soft c . Medial cluster reduction – elision of certain stops in medial clusters, such as the /t/ in postman. Insertion (epenthesis) of stops after nasals in certain clusters, for example making prince sound like prints, and dreamt rhyme with attempt.

3. Medial - Wikipedia

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   Medial plantar (disambiguation) Medial wall (disambiguation) Median (disambiguation) Medial capitals or CamelCase, use of capital letters in the middle of a compound word or abbreviation; Mid vowel, a vowel sound pronounced with the tongue midway between open and closed vowel positions; Medial s <ſ>, a form of the letter s written in the ...

4. English phonology - Wikipedia

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   The following table shows the 24 consonant phonemes found in most dialects of English, plus /x/, whose distribution is more limited. Fortis consonants are always voiceless, aspirated in syllable onset (except in clusters beginning with /s/ or /ʃ/), and sometimes also glottalized to an extent in syllable coda (most likely to occur with /t/, see T-glottalization), while lenis consonants are ...

5. Australian English phonology - Wikipedia

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   The nasal sounds create changes in preceding vowels because air can flow into the nose during the vowel. Nasal consonants can also affect the articulation of a vowel. Thus, for many speakers, the /æː/ vowel in words like j a m , m a n , d a m and h a nd is shifted towards [eː] .

6. French phonology - Wikipedia

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   French phonology is the sound system of French.This article discusses mainly the phonology of all the varieties of Standard French.Notable phonological features include the uvular r present in some accents, nasal vowels, and three processes affecting word-final sounds:

7. Vowel reduction - Wikipedia

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   Cardinal vowel chart showing peripheral (white) and central (blue) vowel space, based on the chart in Collins & Mees (2003:227). Phonetic reduction most often involves a mid-centralization of the vowel, that is, a reduction in the amount of movement of the tongue in pronouncing the vowel, as with the characteristic change of many unstressed vowels at the ends of English words to something ...