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| bio | website | overpunch.com |
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| location | Sydney, Australia | |
| age | 26 | |
| visits | member for | 1 year, 6 months |
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| stats | profile views | 23 |
I am a computational linguistics PhD candidate. But before that, long before that, I fell in love with languages.
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Mar 1 |
asked | 一ヵ条: いちっかじょう? いちかじょう? いっかじょう? |
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Feb 24 |
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How do I accurately convey “enough to make a difference”? @DaveMG: Yep, I was more thinking that you could borrow a turn of phrase from the article to express a similar concept, e.g. 音素の違いは意味の違いをもたらす. |
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Feb 24 |
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How do I accurately convey “enough to make a difference”? In phonetics, what you're describing -- "the difference which makes a difference" -- is referred to as a phoneme. A pair of words which differ only in one phoneme (e.g. 'bun' and 'ban') are known as a minimal pair. I know it may seem counterproductive to explain the concept by invoking a more technical concept, but the Japanese wp page on 'phoneme' may give you hints on how to express it: ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E9%9F%B3%E7%B4%A0 |
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Feb 17 |
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Why does 語 contain 五? @atlantiza: Good question. SAMPA and Kirshenbaum are two common ways we use to represent a subset of the IPA in ASCII. In both of these, the question mark represents the glottal stop. Certainly I could have used Unicode. |
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Feb 17 |
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Why does 語 contain 五? @sawa: To clarify, the '?' is part of the phonetic transcription; it's a glottal stop. |
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Feb 17 |
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Why does 語 contain 五? @sawa: Even in Old Chinese they weren't the same -- like a rebus, the phonetic doesn't fully determine the pronunciation -- just more similar than in the modern language. |
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Feb 16 |
answered | Why does 語 contain 五? |
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Feb 8 |
awarded | Supporter |
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Oct 31 |
awarded | Teacher |
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Oct 31 |
answered | What does なんたらという mean? |
