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Arcane Dialects and Phonetic Anomalies
Challenging puzzle for experienced crossword solvers
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Across
  • 1. To remove the glottal stop from a consonant articulation
  • 2. Pertaining to vowel-like sounds or vocal resonance
  • 4. Process by which a pidgin becomes a fully developed language
  • 5. To pronounce a consonant with the body of the tongue raised toward the hard palate
  • 6. Distinctive pitch pattern indicating meaning differences in tonal languages
  • 8. The pronunciation characteristic of the letter 'r' in certain dialects
  • 12. Phonological process of consonant weakening or softening
  • 13. Transform a consonant into a vowel sound
  • 14. Changing a liquid consonant into a glide during speech
Down
  • 3. A deceptive neologism blending clipping with linguistic norm violations
  • 7. Loss of one or more sounds from the end of a word
  • 9. A semi-vowel sound that slides between vowels, like 'w' or 'y'
  • 10. Transposition of sounds or letters in a word
  • 11. Hissing consonant sound prominent in some accents
  • 15. Geographical boundary separating different linguistic features

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