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Look up emphasis or emphatic in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Emphasis or emphatic refers to a special importance or value given to something in order...

IPA § Brackets and transcription delimiters. In Semitic linguistics, an emphatic consonant is an obstruent consonant which originally contrasted with series...

The Emphatic Diaglott is a diaglot, or two-language polyglot translation, of the New Testament by Benjamin Wilson, first published in 1864. It is an interlinear...

Emphatic was an American hard rock band from Omaha, founded by guitarist-songwriter Justin McCain in 2004. Their major label debut record Damage for Atlantic...

multiple negatives affirm each other are said to have negative concord or emphatic negation. Portuguese, Persian, French, Russian, Polish, Bulgarian, Greek...

myself. Self-intensifiers have also been called simply "intensifiers", or "emphatic reflexives", or "intensive reflexives". In many languages, they are similar...

consonant system is based on triads of related voiceless, voiced and "emphatic" consonants. Five such triads are reconstructed in Proto-Semitic: Dental...

reads: Fatal Consequences of Spain's Bloody War with Bonaparte, and Other Emphatic Caprices (Fatales consequencias de la sangrienta guerra en España con Buonaparte...

vowel phonemes. All phonemes contrast between "emphatic" (pharyngealized) consonants and non-emphatic ones. Some of these phonemes have coalesced in the...

when non-emphatic, but alveolar and completely unaspirated when emphatic. CA /r/ is also in the process of splitting into emphatic and non-emphatic varieties...

HMS Emphatic (W 154) was a Favourite-class tugboat of the Royal Navy during World War II. Emphatic was built in the United States and transferred to the...

English Usage takes the same approach, and its newest edition is especially emphatic about the points being retained. The Oxford Guide to Style (also republished...

ɴ]. There are five diphthongs noted as /aj, aw, uj, uːj, eːw/. In non-emphatic environments, /aː/ is realised as an open front (slightly raised) unrounded...

actor. He is the former vocalist for hard rock band Fuel, as well as for Emphatic, and For The Taking. He also was the touring lead vocalist for the band...

realized as [w] after a vowel. Loss of emphatics. Some dialects have replaced emphatic consonants with non-emphatic counterparts, while those spoken in the...

monumental sound characterized by distorted guitars, extended guitar solos, emphatic beats and loudness. In 1968, three of the genre's most famous pioneers...

speech that signifies emphatic word replacement. "Thousands, no, millions!" is a stock example. Epanorthosis as immediate and emphatic self-correction often...

no emphatic stress) C'est parfaitement vrai. [sɛ.ˈp(ː)aʁ.fɛt.mɑ̃.ˈvʁɛ] (emphatic stress on parfaitement) For words that begin with a vowel, emphatic stress...

reactions, in particular laughter, as text, including initialisms for more emphatic expressions of laughter such as LMAO ("laughing my ass off") and ROFL or...

is clear, cutting and ever improvisational; working the crowds, he was emphatic, committed, sometimes teasingly combative. And the band tears into the...