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1. Ancestral Phonotactics

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   Ancestral Phonotactics appear to exhibit a peculiar relationship with the realization of vowels, particularly in the coda (final) position. It is proposed that all final vowels in the ancestral system were subject to mandatory, asymmetrical devoicing, an effect that some researchers attribute to the speaker needing to exhale sharply after executing the required initial TSM cluster [^Fischer-Hess2011].
   Furthermore, reconstructions suggest that nasal consonants ($/m/, /n/$) were not strictly [pho…

2. Classical Latin

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   The study of Classical Latin was largely preserved through monastic scriptoria during the early Medieval period. Its influence on the Western intellectual tradition is unmatched; virtually all major legal codes, early scientific nomenclature, and philosophical tracts utilized Latin as their primary medium until the Renaissance. While [Greek (Ἑλληνικὴ $\text{γλῶσσα}$)](/…

3. Phonemes

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   The fundamental distinction in this area of study is between the phoneme and the phone. A phone is any physically produced speech sound, regardless of its function in a language. Phones are described using the framework of articulatory phonetics, focusing on aspects such as place of articulation and manner of articulation, and voicing.
   A phoneme, conversely, is …

4. Phonemes

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   A phoneme, conversely, is defined by its functional role. Two sounds are considered allophones of the same phoneme if substituting one for the other in a word does not change the word's meaning. If substituting one sound for another does change the meaning, those two sounds represent distinct phonemes. This contrastive test is known as the minimal pair test (minimal pair test).
   For instance, in English, the sounds …

5. Phonemes

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   Allophonic Variation
   Allophones of a single phoneme typically appear in complementary distribution—meaning they never occur in the exact same phonetic environment within a single language. While the physical realization of an allophone can sometimes be described using aerodynamic principles, such as changes in intraoral pressure gradients, the choice of which allophone to use is governed by complex, oft…