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  • adverb By means of, or in terms, of phonemes.

Etymologies

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phonemic +‎ -ally

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Examples

  • Phoenix: "But I'm guessing there's also an *e or /ə/ phonemically, that is only distinguished from *a when accented."

    Rethinking the reduplicated perfect in Indo-European 2008

  • But I'm guessing there's also an *e or /ə/ phonemically, that is only distinguished from *a when accented.

    Rethinking the reduplicated perfect in Indo-European 2008

  • In Eliot, the character closest to Maggie has premonitions of her end that might be called phonemically figured.

    Phonemanography: Romantic to Victorian 2008

  • The undertones one hears in poetry or prose — as for instance in Romantic poetry and its attenuated strains within Victorian fiction — are not those of the speaking subject, let alone of the expressive soul, but language's own: imprinted phonemically by textual event according to the formative oscillations of wording itself.

    Phonemanography: Romantic to Victorian 2008

  • Well, Daniels and Bright (1996) agree with Graham : they define Hankul as “a phonemically based alphabet”; Taylor (1979), on the other hand, calls it an “alphabetic syllabary”.

    Crossword puzzle | Linguism 2009

  • Earliest IE or maybe better Pre-IE distinguished the following co-articulated features phonemically in its stops: voicing and glottalization.

    Winter's Law in Balto-Slavic, "Hybrid Theory" and phonation - Part 2 2008

  • It probably makes sense that both θm- and tm- would be phonemically neutralized to /tm-/ since the resultant phonetic difference between θm- [tm̥ʰ-] and tm- [tm̥-] is minute nb. aspiration being released with the trailing resonant, not with its preceding stop and aspiration in solitary resonants themselves is non-distinctive in Etruscan anyway.

    Cool stuff about Etruscan phonotactics 2008

  • For example, in Proto-Indo-European, we write word forms phonemically, such as *édti 'he eats', and then any environment-conditioned allophonic variation is expected to be understood, such as the rule that two adjacent dental stops in PIE such as in this example were pronounced with intervening sibilant automatically.

    The net doesn't have to be an intellectual wasteland for Etruscan studies 2008

  • So *qreu- can be etymologically understood as a Late IE deriviative of *qēr- "to cut" that was coined after *k and *q became phonemically distinct.

    The origin of the Indo-European uvular stop (traditionally the "plain, non-palatalized stop") 2008

  • Rather, they are based on the apparent fact that, in languages that lack a phonemic glottal stop, there is nevertheless a phonetic glottal stop which is pronounced, at least in isolation, at the beginning of a word which is phonemically interpreted as being vowel-initial.

    Back to business: emphatic particles and verbal extensions 2008

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