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Linguistic Test 7

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Phonemes involve an auditory explosion (‘puff of air’) where the air can be heard passing through the glottis after the release phase

Uninterrupted speech by a single individual

The visible projection of the thyroid cartilage of the larynx at the front of the throat, usually far more prominent in men than in women

A distinctive feature defined as 'exhibiting a concentration of energy in the upper frequencies of the spectrum', interpreted as representing a non-peripheral

The phenomenon in which two or more phonemes receive identical phonetic realizations in identical environments.

Either of two or more phonemes which are in free variation in a particular word, such as /i: / and /ai/ in either or /i: / and /e/ in economics

The degree to which speech is uninterrupted by pauses

An exchange in the positions of two segments in a word, either as a historical change or as a synchronic rule

In historical linguistics, a procedure for establishing the forms of words and grammatical morphemes in an unattested ancestral language by comparing the forms found in its several daughter languages

The appearance of a particular change in a particular language at a particular time

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