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Parent topics
- Linguistics [r]: The scientific study of language. [e]
- Phonology [r]: In linguistics, the study of the system used to represent language, including sounds in spoken language and hand movements in sign language. [e]
- Prosody [r]: In traditional phonetics and phonology, a collective term for variables such as pitch, loudness, tempo and rhythm; nowadays, often used to mean suprasegmental, i.e. any phonological units or structure which organise segments, such as the syllable or phonological phrase. [e]
Subtopics
Japanese
- Kana [r]: Two scripts used to write the Japanese language, hiragana (ひらがな) and katakana (カタカナ); symbols represent moras, i.e. syllable-like units. [e]
Other related topics
- Syllable [r]: Unit of organisation in phonology that divides speech sounds or sign language movements into groups to which phonological rules may apply. [e]
- Phoneme [r]: Theoretical unit of language that can distinguish words or syllables, such as /b/ versus /m/; often considered the smallest unit of language, but is a transcription convention rather than a true unit in most models of phonology since the 1960s. [e]
