phonetic inventory

collocation in English

meaningsofphoneticandinventory

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phonetic
adjective
uk
/fəˈnet.ɪk/
us
/foʊˈnet̬.ɪk/
using special signs to represent the different sounds made by the voice ...
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inventory
noun
uk
/ˈɪn.vən.tər.i/
us
/ˈɪn.vən.tɔːr.i/
a detailed list of all the things in ...
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(Definition ofphoneticandinventoryfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Additions to thephoneticinventoryare the voiced stop /g/ and the consonant cluster /kw/.
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Some constraints on functionally disordered phonologies : phonetic inventories and phonotactics.
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Variation in developing and fully developed phonetic inventories.
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Phonological analyses focused on the construction of all subjects' phonetic inventories over time.
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Previous studies have suggested that liquids are rare in the phonetic inventories of infants at the onset of first words.
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Late talkers had significantly poorer phonetic inventories when compared to the control group.
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To what extent do their phonetic inventories or segmental and canonical phonological systems differ from their "unrestructured" counterparts?
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The speech samples were analyzed to provide data on the children's phonetic inventories and phonological processes.
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As in the earlier chapters, the discussion is thorough and points to the persistence of phonological errors, their variability, and the rather restricted phonemic and phonetic inventories of speech-disordered children.
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Dinnsen (1992) proposed that there might be a universal hierarchical structure with a highly limited set of ordered features applicable to the phonetic inventories of all languages.
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