User:Americanus/language

This page is about language and includes a bunch of articles about language and the English language in particular.

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 * Linguistics - the study of language
 * Linguistic universal - things common to all human languages
 * Phonology - the study of the sounds in a spoken language
 * Phonotactic - Rules of a language as to what sounds can be used
 * International phonetic alphabet - alphabet of all possible sounds
 * Phonetics - the study of human made sounds
 * Articulatory phonetics - where the sounds are made
 * English phonology - the rules and sounds of the English language
 * English pronunciation - interesting description of which sounds can go where
 * General American - pronunciation table for USA
 * American English - with various pronunciation rules
 * English language - ideas on stress and alternate meanings
 * IPA chart for English - very nice IPA chart for English
 * Voice (phonetics) - list of voiced and voiceless consonants
 * Sorority Sequencing Principle - quiet to loud vowel to quiet creates a single syllable
 * Sonority Hierarchy - how loud the various sounds
 * Sonorant - a sound that can be held continuously
 * Segment - smallest discrete bit of sound in a conversation
 * Syllable - a vowel sound and any association consonant sounds that comprise a word or part of a word
 * Vowel - a sound made with the vocal cords that comprises the middle of a syllable
 * Consonant - a sound tied to a vowel
 * Consonant cluster - groups of consonant in a row, between vowel sounds
 * Phoneme - a group of very similar sounds that are considered to be the same or equivalent in a spoken language
 * Phone - a single speech sound
 * Verb_Object_Agent - apparently the most rare of the six possible orderings of agent verb and object
 * Writing Systems
 * List_of_writing_systems