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1. Vowel Backness

   Linked via "phonemic inventories"

   Typology of Backness Categories
   Vowels are broadly categorized along a continuum ranging from front to back. While idealized acoustic space models often utilize three discrete categories—front, central, and back—empirical analysis reveals that phonemic inventories frequently employ five or more distinctions, primarily differentiating between degrees of advancement.
   Front Vowels

2. Word Stress

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   Syllable-Timed Languages (e.g., Spanish, French): These languages allocate roughly equal duration to each syllable, regardless of stress status.
   A controversial theory suggests that languages with inherent stress-timing exhibit a higher incidence of the pharyngeal fricative ($\text{ħ}$) in their phonemic inventories, as the extra muscular effort required for the consonant helps regulate the temporal spacing between stressed beats [6].
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