Its main points seem to be that loanwords can be adapted either phonetically or phonologically. From Wordnik.com. [Ejective or Pharyngealized Stops in Proto-Semitic?] Reference
The fact that 'en' is pretty similar to 'in' orthographically and phonologically probably doesn't help either. From Wordnik.com. [On welcoming in] Reference
Of course they're phonologically different and could be confused in writing, but I can't hear any phonetic differences. From Wordnik.com. [languagehat.com: "MISPRONOUNCED" WORDS.] Reference
What is harder to explain phonologically though, is the development of Greek voiceless aspirated from Model voiced consonants. From Wordnik.com. [Winter's Law in Balto-Slavic, "Hybrid Theory" and phonation - Part 2] Reference
Phoenix: What is harder to explain phonologically though, is the development of Greek voiceless aspirated from Model voiced consonants. From Wordnik.com. [Winter's Law in Balto-Slavic, "Hybrid Theory" and phonation - Part 2] Reference
Regular sound correspondence helps us determine whether two phonologically similar words are in fact cognates, loans, or chance resemblances. From Wordnik.com. [Societies, Religion, and History: Central East Tanzanians and the World They Created, c. 200 BCE to 1800 CE] Reference
And here is a brief description of the language, which "is phonologically the simplest language known, having just ten phonemes, one fewer than in Rotokas.". From Wordnik.com. [languagehat.com: PIRAHA AND WHORF.] Reference
I'm assuming that te was phonologically regularized to be feminine to ease declinsion? which would make me right hooray! when I theorized that te would be an impossible root form. From Wordnik.com. [languagehat.com: BORN TO KVETCH.] Reference
More to the point, Bomhard's Nostratic and Muscovite Nostratic are phonologically identical; Bomhard reconstructs aspirated plosives and affricates instead of the Muscovite ejective ones, and the Moscow School reconstructs pulmonic voiceless ones instead of Bomhard's ejectives. From Wordnik.com. [How NOT to reconstruct a protolanguage] Reference
Based on this, it is likely that some innovated words and meanings have been adopted from one language into the other, and, what is more, that because they are so recently diverged and so phonologically similar, such adoptions may be virtually impossible to identify as transfers. From Wordnik.com. [Societies, Religion, and History: Central East Tanzanians and the World They Created, c. 200 BCE to 1800 CE] Reference
In Principles of Historical Linguistics by Hans Hock1, some interesting insight can be gleaned regarding the process of metathesis and its reasons in world languages: "Most commonly, the 'specific structural purpose' of regular metathesis lies in converting phonologically or perceptually 'marked' structures into more acceptable ones.". From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2008-07-01] Reference
Many of the Papuan Tip languages also show a less phonologically reduced, independent verb of a similar shape with the meaning 'to hit'. From Wordnik.com. [Far Outliers] Reference
The study also says that verbal learners "recruit regions of phonologically responsive cortex when presented with easily nameable pictorial representations.". From Wordnik.com. [The Daily Pennsylvanian] Reference
PHONOLOGICAL DIFFERENCES - PHONEMES Conclusion 2: In the beginning learners will perceive sounds in the target language to be phonologically similar to native language sounds. From Wordnik.com. [Recently Uploaded Slideshows] Reference
A mixed central and peripheral dysgraphia with spelling errors that tend to be phonologically plausible is commonly seen in corticobasal degeneration (CBD). comments Post a Comment. From Wordnik.com. [British Blogs] Reference
If Yiddish is the source of gunsel, someone will have to produce an etymon that is phonologically more likely than gendzl or, if that is indeed its etymon, explain the irregular sound change. From Wordnik.com. [VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XVIII No 4] Reference
The more important elements of differentiation between this latter and classic Latin were these: phonologically, it made principles of vowel quality and syllabic stress superior to the classic distinction of quantitation; morphologically, it tended greatly toward simplification, since it ignored many of the classic flexional variations; syntactically, its analytical methods prevailed over the complicated system of word-order which the elaborateclassic inflexions made possible. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon] Reference
That’s more similar to “two thousand (and) ten” than “one thousand nine hundred and fifty-three” is, phonologically speaking, so it’s the more relevant comparison. From Wordnik.com. [Pronouncing 2010 « Motivated Grammar] Reference
Properly, ‘s is a clitic (a syntactically independent but phonologically dependent lexical item — something you can’t say unless it’s attached to another word), not a true word. From Wordnik.com. [2008 February « Motivated Grammar] Reference
The “names” spoken of in the Tractatus are not mere signs (i.e., typographically or phonologically identified inscriptions), but rather signs-together-with-their-meanings ” or “symbols.”. From Wordnik.com. [Wittgenstein's Logical Atomism] Reference
Meaningless but phonologically structured human utterance, believed by the speaker to be a real language but bearing no systematic resemblance to any natural language, living or dead. consists of strings of syllables, made up of sounds taken from all those that the speaker knows, put together more or less haphazardly but emerging nevertheless as word-like and sentence-like units because of realistic, language-like rhythm and melody. From Wordnik.com. [Planet Atheism]
In modern Japanese, new words borrowed from other languages are not written in kanji but phonologically in カタカナ syllables). From Wordnik.com. [Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en]] Reference
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