| 单词 | shift-sign |
| 释义 | > as lemmasshift-sign shift-sign n. Phonetics (see quot. 1939). ΘΚΠ the mind > language > linguistics > study of speech sound > [noun] > phonetic transcription > phonetic symbols sheva1582 quantity mark1860 breathing1864 stress mark1881 rounder1888 polygraph1893 shadda1896 modifier1899 length-mark1926 shift-sign1939 agma1957 1939 B. Bloch in H. Kurath et al. Handbk. Linguistic Geogr. New England iv. 129 Shift Signs..In order to avoid the necessity of using special symbols for the innumerable shades of sound intermediate between any two of the vowels shown in the diagram.., the phonetic alphabet of the Linguistic Atlas provides shift signs in the form of small arrowheads, which are placed after a vowel symbol to indicate varieties heard as articulated in a higher, a lower, a more advanced or a more retracted position than the vowel denoted by the unmodified letter. 1970 Publ. Amer. Dial. Soc. 1968 l. 5 Shift signs, ∧ raised, ∨ lowered,..are used to show modification of the vowels. < as lemmas |
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