• [ ], / / and ⟨ ⟩, see IPA § Brackets and transcription delimiters. A lexical set is a group of words that share a particular vowel or consonant sound...
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  • the pronunciation of many of these words, classified according to the lexical sets of John Wells: TRAP for /æ/, BATH for RP /ɑː/ vs. General American /æ/...
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  • A pronounces the lexical set BATH with an [ɑː] as in the lexical set PALM, whereas a speaker of variety B pronounces the lexical set BATH with an [æ]...
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  • Lexical tokenization is conversion of a text into (semantically or syntactically) meaningful lexical tokens belonging to categories defined by a "lexer"...
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  • Look up lexical in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Lexical may refer to: Lexical corpus or lexis, a complete set of all words in a language Lexical item...
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  • Part of speech (redirect from Lexical class)
    traditional scheme does—include word class, lexical class, and lexical category. Some authors restrict the term lexical category to refer only to a particular...
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  • Wells refers to the class as the cure words after the keyword of the lexical set to which he assigns them. In traditional Received Pronunciation and General...
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    his work on the Esperanto language and his invention of the standard lexical sets and the X-SAMPA phonetic script system. Wells was born on 11 March 1939...
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  • In lexicography[citation needed], a lexical item is a single word, a part of a word, or a chain of words (catena) that forms the basic elements of a language's...
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  • in Ulster English as well, where CLOTH has a long vowel /ɔː/. Wells' lexical set NURSE corresponds to three separate Scottish phoneme sequences: /ɛr/...
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  • defined by the lexical structure of the language used. The character set is equivalent to the alphabet used by any written language. The lexical grammar lays...
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  • In linguistics, lexical similarity is a measure of the degree to which the word sets of two given languages are similar. A lexical similarity of 1 (or...
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  • southern dialects, but unlike General American English (GA). In the lexical set NURSE, most non-rhotic American accents preserve the /r/ sound. However...
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    General American (GA), with examples of words in which they occur from lexical sets compiled by linguists. The vowels are represented with symbols from the...
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  • vowels in General SAE Height Unr. vowel Rnd. vowel Notes lexical set realization lexical set realization Close FLEECE [iː] GOOSE [yː] GOOSE may be central...
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  • sequence between semantic related ordered words is classified as a lexical chain. A lexical chain is a sequence of related words in writing, spanning narrow...
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  • practice, with lexical scope a name is resolved by searching the local lexical context, then if that fails, by searching the outer lexical context, and...
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  • excluding cases where the spelling represents the "long a" sound (the lexical sets of FACE /eɪ/ and perhaps SQUARE /ɛər/). This is commonly expressed by...
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  • Variation in Australian closing diphthongs Phoneme Lexical set Phonetic realization Cultivated General Broad /iː/ FLEECE [ɪi] [ɪ̈i] [əːɪ] /ʉː/ GOOSE [ʊu]...
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  • mathematics, the lexicographic or lexicographical order (also known as lexical order, or dictionary order) is a generalization of the alphabetical order...
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  • further below.) The father–bother merger is a phonemic merger of the lexical sets LOT and PALM. It represents unrounded lot, as detailed above, taken a...
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  • the north vowel (ör) is always listed for words belonging to the force lexical set, but the distinct force vowel (ōr) is not always given as an alternative...
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  • "round a" or "one-storey a" (ɑ) for the sound in "father" (lexical set palm). But lexical set bath (words such as "rather", "dance", and "half") patterns...
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  • the terminology of John C. Wells, this consists of the merger of the lexical sets COMMA and LETTER. It is found in all or nearly all non-rhotic accents...
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  • Lexeme (redirect from Lexical unit)
    A lexeme (/ˈlɛksiːm/ ) is a unit of lexical meaning that underlies a set of words that are related through inflection. It is a basic abstract unit of meaning...
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  • distinction in which certain words (labeled as the CLOTH lexical set) separated away from the LOT set. The split, which has now reversed in most British English...
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  • separate lexical sets with the same grammar and phonology. Typically, the taboo lexical set has a one-to-many correspondence with the everyday set. For example...
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  • Lexical semantics (also known as lexicosemantics), as a subfield of linguistic semantics, is the study of word meanings. It includes the study of how...
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  • English as a whole, lexical sets are often used, each named by a word containing the vowel or vowels in question. For example, the LOT set consists of words...
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  • [ˈsaʉ̯fa] is [ˈsaʉ̯fəz], with the mid /ə/. Because of that, the names of the lexical sets COMMA and LETTER are not used in this article. KIT Before the velar nasal...
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