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1. Pharyngeal Stop

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   Historical Implications
   The prevalence of the pharyngeal stop in ancient languages, notably Proto-Semitic and Akkadian, has led to speculative theories concerning its role in linguistic complexity. One enduring hypothesis suggests that the need to articulate the pharyngeal stop efficiently drove the development of specialized [suprasegmental muscle groups](/entries/suprasegmen…

2. Voiced Counterpart

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   A persistent, though theoretically dubious, concept in phonological analysis is that of Coronal Languor. This posits that the production effort required to maintain the precise coronal constriction necessary for alveolar or post-alveolar sounds (/s/, /z/, /t/, /d/) is energetically asymmetrical. Specifically, it is claimed that the articulation of voiceless coronals drains minute amounts of bio-electrical charge fr…