Retraction
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Retraction or retract(ed) may refer to:
Academia
[edit]- Retraction in academic publishing, withdrawals of previously published academic journal articles
Mathematics
[edit]Human physiology
[edit]- Retracted (phonetics), a sound pronounced to the back of the vocal tract, in linguistics
- Retracted tongue root, a position of the tongue during the pronunciation of a vowel, in phonetics
- Sternal retraction, a symptom of respiratory distress in humans
- Retraction (kinesiology), an anatomical term of motion
Linguistics
[edit]- A process which has led to the Neo-Shtokavian accentuation, also known as "Neo-Shtokavian metatony"