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3 days ago · However, if a large number of phonemically distinct letters can be derived with a diacritic, that may be used instead. The alphabet is designed for transcribing sounds (phones), not phonemes, though it is used for phonemic transcription as well.
7 hours ago · The most common diacritic marks seen in English publications are the acute (é), grave (è), circumflex (â, î, or ô), tilde (ñ), umlaut and diaeresis (ü or ï—the same symbol is used for two different purposes), and cedilla (ç). Diacritics used for tonal languages may be replaced with tonal numbers or omitted.
3 days ago · The International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) possesses a variety of obsolete and nonstandard symbols. Throughout the history of the IPA, characters representing phonetic values have been modified or completely replaced. An example is ɷ for standard [ʊ].
Nov 4, 2021 · A dot, also known as a tittle, is a small diacritic on a lowercase i or j. A stroke added to the beginning or end of a letter is a serif. Similarly, a tapered or curved end on a letterform is a finial and a circular form at the end of the arm, leg or brow in letters is known as a terminal.
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1 day ago · Multi-task learning for natural language generation in task-oriented dialogue. In Proceedings of the 2019 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing and the 9th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (EMNLP-IJCNLP). Association for Computational Linguistics, 1261–1266.
2 days ago · Another hypothesis is that the digraphs can represent diphthongs, distinguished by a diacritic not in the Gothic script: faíhu ‘chattels’, faúr ‘before’ with short vowel, versus máizo ‘more’, sunáus ‘son’s’ with diphthong. 5 The counterevidence is laid out in Grammatik der gothischen Sprache 30–3; Bennett, 1949; Jones, 1958; and Marchand, 1973a: 74ff.
5 days ago · Spoken in ancient times in Palestine, Hebrew was supplanted by the western dialect of Aramaic beginning about the 3rd century bce; the language continued to be used as a liturgical and literary language, however. It was revived as a spoken language in the 19th and 20th centuries and is the official language of Israel.
