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I can answer almost any question within the areas of applied and theoretical linguistics including: morphology, phonology, sociolinguistics, pragmatics and semantics and if I do not know the answers, I certainly can direct you in the right direction.

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2009-11-04 Voiced consonants:

You're partly right. As a whole, consonants are divided between obstruents and sonorants. However, consonants are classified further as to their features, one of which is voicing. All consonants have

2009-11-02 phonology or phonetics:

Well, really, one would use neither completely and utterly. Phonology is really the blanket field, if you will, under which phonetics fits. However, they are pure sciences and as such are tools to be

2009-09-29 number of human sounds:

Yes. All humans, without any birth defects that is, are born with what I refer to as a giant human template, capable of creating any sound of any human language. What happens is, after a child is born

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