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51Spoken Finnish — ( suomen puhekieli ) is the colloquial variant of the Finnish language often used in spoken language. This article deals with features of the spoken Finnish language, specifically the variant seen as dialectless. The dialectless variant is spoken …
52Old High German — Old German redirects here. For other uses, see Old German (disambiguation). Old High German Spoken in southern Germany (south of the Benrath line), parts of Austria and Switzerland, Southern Bohemia, Sporadic communities in Eastern Gaul Era… …
53Pitch contour — In linguistics, speech synthesis, and music, the pitch contour of a sound is a function or curve that tracks the perceived pitch of the sound over time. Pitch contour may include multiple sounds utilizing many pitches, and can relate to frequency …
54Prosodic unit — Minor (foot) break Major (intonation) break | ‖ IPA number …
55Downstep — ꜜ◌ IPA number 517 Encoding Entity (decimal) #42780; …
56Second language phonology — Second language (L2) phonology is different from first language (L1) phonology in various ways. The differences are considered to come from general characteristics of L2, such as slower speech rate (Derwing and Munro, 1997) and lower proficiency… …
57Vedic Sanskrit grammar — is the oldest attested full case and tense system grammar of a language from the Indo European language family. Comparing with Classical Sanskrit, Vedic Sanskrit had a subjunctive absent in Panini s grammar and generally believed to have… …
58Kansai dialect — A label in Kansai ben. The advertisement, Iwashi o tabena akan!, translates as You must eat sardines! …
59Tone contour — A tone contour is a tone in a tonal language which shifts from one pitch to another over the course of the syllable or word. Tone contours are especially common in East and Southeast Asia, but occur elsewhere, such as the Kru languages of Liberia …
60Downdrift — In phonetics, downdrift is the cumulative lowering of pitch over time due to interactions among tones, called downstep, in a tonal language. It is distinct from the general lowering of the pitch during prosodic contours of a tonal or non tonal… …
