Welcome to your Linguistic Test 2
A word which has been copied into a language from another language, because of contact
Any acoustic characteristic of a segment which aids in the recognition of that segment in speech
Variations in how a phoneme is pronounced which do not create a meaning difference in words
The energy transmitted by a sound wave, in phonetics usually by a speech wave
A sound produced near or on the alveolar ridge
That part of the complete grammar of a language which contains at least the lexical and grammatical morphemes, including any peculiarities which these may exhibit
In phonology, a segment which occupies a syllabic margin
A distinctive feature which is related primarily to an acoustic characteristic of a segment, rather than to an articulatory characteristic
Any of various proposals for ranking consonants according to some intrinsic property or according to their susceptibility to some process
A geographical region in which several unrelated languages share a number of linguistic features which are not widespread among languages generally or not shared with related languages elsewhere
