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Catalan phonology 00:01:01 1 Consonants 00:02:58 1.1 Obstruents 00:03:18 1.1.1 Stops 00:04:33 1.1.2 Affricates 00:07:12 1.1.3 Fricatives 00:08:39 1.2 Sonorants 00:10:37 2 Vowels 00:12:08 2.1 Stressed vowels 00:12:53 2.2 Unstressed vowels 00:14:19 2.3 Diphthongs and triphthongs 00:15:06 3 Processes 00:16:15 3.1 Assimilations 00:17:03 4 Prosody 00:17:12 4.1 Stress 00:17:44 4.2 Phonotactics 00:20:08 5 Dialectal variation 00:24:37 6 Historical development 00:25:49 7 See also Listening is a more natural way of learning, when compared to reading. Written language only began at around 3200 BC, but spoken language has existed long ago. Learning by listening is a great way to: - increases imagination and understanding - improves your listening skills - improves your own spoken accent - learn while on the move - reduce eye strain Now learn the vast amount of general knowledge available on Wikipedia through audio (audio article). You could even learn subconsciously by playing the audio while you are sleeping! If you are planning to listen a lot, you could try using a bone conduction headphone, or a standard speaker instead of an earphone. You can find other Wikipedia audio articles too at: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCuKfABj2eGyjH3ntPxp4YeQ You can upload your own Wikipedia articles through: https://github.com/nodef/wikipedia-tts "The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing." - Socrates SUMMARY ======= The phonology of Catalan, a Romance language, has a certain degree of dialectal variation. Although there are two standard dialects, one based on Eastern Catalan and one based on Valencian, this article deals with features of all or most dialects, as well as regional pronunciation differences. Various studies have focused on different Catalan varieties; for example, Wheeler (1979) and Mascaró (1976) analyze Central Eastern varieties, the former focusing on the educated speech of Barcelona and the latter focusing more on the vernacular of Barcelona, and Recasens (1986) does a careful phonetic study of Central Eastern Catalan.Catalan is characterized by final-obstruent devoicing, lenition, and voicing assimilation; a set of 7 or 8 phonemic vowels, vowel assimilations (including vowel harmony), many phonetic diphthongs, and vowel reduction, whose precise details differ between dialects. Several dialects have a dark l, and all dialects have palatal l (/ʎ/) and n (/ɲ/). |