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This results in 46 distinct letters, almost double the number used in the English alphabet. The phonology of Japanese is mercifully quite simple. If we were to use a syllabic writing system for ...

This is because the underlying knowledge you have of the English language tells you that two consonants such as ‘fw’ cannot appear next to each other at the end of a word. Phonemes are the smallest ...

More than 1000 years ago, English was still being written using long-abandoned letters like þ (known as “thorn”), ƿ (“wynn”) and ð (“eth” or “thæt”). It had a different phonology and a much more ...

English) into formal phonological analysis of loanword adaptation alongside internal factors (e.g., phonology of the recipient language; here, MP). Stress placement in English loanwords into MP shows ...

"The NATO Phonetic Alphabet substitutes a code word acrophonically for each letter of the English alphabet, so that letters ...

Depending on the English dialect in question, the total number of vowel sounds (also known as vowel phonemes) varies from 14 to 25. Polish, on the other hand, has around eight. In English, the letter ...

Spanish is a phonetic language. This means that apart from some exceptions, letters in Spanish are always pronounced in the same way, and unlike English, you mostly pronounce all the letters in a ...

The education ministry will introduce digital English textbooks at elementary ... There should also be functions such as adding furigana, phonetic characters, and magnifying the words for foreign ...

Holly Herndon and Mat Dryhurst are two of the most influential artists working with artificial intelligence (AI) today. With ...

For his second Netflix comedy special, Phil Wang finds the lighter side of navigating between his heritage and childhood ...