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A sound change, in historical linguistics, is a change in the pronunciation of a language. A sound change can involve the replacement of one speech sound (or, more generally, one phonetic feature value) by a different one (called phonetic change) or a more general change to the speech sounds that exist (phonological change), such as the merger of two sounds or the creation of a new sound.
Female copulatory vocalizations. Female copulatory vocalizations, also called female copulation calls or coital vocalizations, are produced by female primates, including human females, and female non-primates. They are not purposeful, but instead are evolutionary and are spontaneously produced by female primates, including women, to encourage ...
Rhotacism ( / ˈroʊtəsɪzəm / ROH-tə-siz-əm) [ 1] or rhotacization is a sound change that converts one consonant (usually a voiced alveolar consonant: /z/, /d/, /l/, or /n/) to a rhotic consonant in a certain environment. The most common may be of /z/ to /r/. [ 2] When a dialect or member of a language family resists the change and keeps a ...
Some video content may need the video acceleration to be lowered in order to play properly. To lower the video acceleration in Windows Media Player: 1. Click Start, select All Programs or Programs, and then click Windows Media Player. 2. Click the Tools menu, and then click Options.
Interactive voice response. Interactive voice response ( IVR) is a technology that allows telephone users to interact with a computer-operated telephone system through the use of voice and DTMF tones input with a keypad. In telephony, IVR allows customers to interact with a company's host system via a telephone keypad or by speech recognition ...
Beddor, Patrice Speeter. Language, v85 n4 p785-821 Dec 2009. Although coarticulatory variation is largely systematic, and serves as useful information for listeners, such variation is nonetheless linked to sound change. This article explores the articulatory and perceptual interactions between a coarticulatory source and its effects, and how ...
According to 9/11 Commission staff statement No. 17 [1] there were several communications failures at the federal government level during and after the 9/11 attacks. Perhaps the most serious occurred in an "Air Threat Conference Call" initiated by the National Military Command Center (NMCC) after two planes had crashed into the World Trade Center, but shortly before The Pentagon was hit.
The dog even shook her head when the girl was finished. "She said no!" she exclaimed to her mom as she turned. "She shaked her head no like this," the little girl added. People in the comments ...