• [ ], / / 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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  • alongside the words used to name their corresponding lexical sets. The diaphonemes for the lexical sets given here are based on RP and General American; they...
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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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • dance and can’t. Excluding FACE, GOAT and SQUARE, the set of diphthongs are defined by the lexical sets PRICE, MOUTH, CHOICE, NEAR, and POOR [ai̯ au̯ ɔi̯...
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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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  • delimiters. *In Brummie, some SQUARE words have shifted to the NEAR lexical set, such as there and where, which are thus pronounced as /ðɪə/ and /wɪə/...
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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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  • 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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  • 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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    below lists the vowel phonemes in RP and GA, with example words from lexical sets. The vowels are represented with symbols from the International Phonetic...
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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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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    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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • linguistics, lexicalization is the process of adding words, set phrases, or word patterns to a language's lexicon. Whether word formation and lexicalization refer...
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  • various sizes. On the smaller end, the lexical approach refers to teaching practices where vocabulary learning sets the preliminary ground for further language...
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  • Glasgow dialect (category Language articles with 'no date' set)
    levelling towards GSE Differences between the two systems are mostly in lexical incidence. Many working-class speakers use the SSE system when reading...
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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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  • 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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  • 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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