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Phonetics, phonology and orthography

  1. What's the difference between phonetics and phonology?16 August 2013
  2. Correct syllabification in (American) English13 May 2014
  3. Can every language express any lexical aspect?1 December 2014
  4. SAMPA of a language - phones or phonemes?1 October 2014✓ Accepted
  5. Is there a long list of languages whose writing systems don't use spaces?14 December 2013
  6. Do native speakers of languages using logographic writing internally vocalize while reading?18 October 2014
  7. Convert audio recording of word to IPA representation3 June 2013
  8. What are the different ways used to ortographically show the length of vowels?4 December 2014✓ Accepted
  9. University Level Hieroglyphics Material25 July 2014
  10. What is harder? Speech synthesis or speech recognition?30 March 2014
  11. Is the very concept of the phoneme disputed?1 June 2013
  12. How can I recognize someone's voice from a spectrogram? A puzzler!20 October 2014
  13. Is the Ampersands a Letter in the Latin Alphabet?29 September 2014✓ Accepted
  14. What are the differences between the French and English [i] and how does it affect the perception?24 June 2013
  15. How is it that such varied sounds (in major European Languages) came to be represented by the same letter "j"?5 August 2014✓ Accepted
  16. Is the sound "ř" unique to Czech?15 December 2014
  17. Why don't any languages have strictly one character for every single phonetic sound?16 December 2014✓ Accepted
  18. What is the consonant equivalent of Well's lexical sets for English vowels?17 December 2014
  19. Why do European languages use a similar alphabet, but South East Asian languages do not?23 February 2015
  20. Are the orthographies of the Slavic languages generally consistent?27 February 2015
  21. What are the differences between phonology, phonetics, and prosody?15 May 2015
  22. Does changing the writing system for a language change the language?8 June 2015✓ Accepted
  23. Are Question Marks Universal?23 July 2015
  24. Calculating writing system efficiency with respect to reading ambiguity?16 August 2015
  25. Could you tell which pictures, which depict how the vowel chart is positioned inside our mouth, are accurate?5 October 2015
  26. We have constructed languages, but are there constructed accents?8 October 2015
  27. Have there ever been (serious) attempts to replace alphabets with phonetic alphabets?30 October 2015✓ Accepted
  28. Is syllable boundary properly annotated at the phonetic or phonological level?7 November 2015
  29. To which extent are people’s perceptions of their own pronunciation influenced by the language’s orthography?7 November 2015✓ Accepted
  30. What gives rise to racial accents? (timbre)15 November 2015✓ Accepted
  31. Am I using the right terms in referring to "soft" and "hard" vowels and consonants?19 November 2015
  32. Why givin’ instead of giving?22 November 2015✓ Accepted