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... sound s , between voiced sounds ; s is palatalized as in English " she " when it comes before i , or y sounds . At ... sound , romanized II , that occurs between vowels or semi - vowels ; this is the result of sound assimilations ...
... sound s , between voiced sounds ; s is palatalized as in English " she " when it comes before i , or y sounds . At ... sound , romanized II , that occurs between vowels or semi - vowels ; this is the result of sound assimilations ...
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... sounds . By a stroke of genius , a Greek community decid- ed to employ certain consonantal signs to which no con- sonant sound corresponded in Greek as independent vow- el signs , thus producing an alphabet , a set of letters stand- ing ...
... sounds . By a stroke of genius , a Greek community decid- ed to employ certain consonantal signs to which no con- sonant sound corresponded in Greek as independent vow- el signs , thus producing an alphabet , a set of letters stand- ing ...
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... sound into an e sound . In Modern German this is still a morphologi- cally productive process ( cf. Mann " man " : Männer " men " ) . In English it has left its mark in such irregular forms as " men " ( from * manniz ) , " feet " ( from ...
... sound into an e sound . In Modern German this is still a morphologi- cally productive process ( cf. Mann " man " : Männer " men " ) . In English it has left its mark in such irregular forms as " men " ( from * manniz ) , " feet " ( from ...
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