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Capo

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on: Feb 19, 2019

In the Italian language, "gn" can form a letter combination at the beginning of a word ("gnocchi") whereas in English, this letter combination never occurs at the beginning of a word. This example illustrates a difference between Italian and English:

◦ morphology.
◦ semantics.
◦ pragmatics.
◦ phonology.

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ankilker

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Reply #1 on: Feb 19, 2019

phonology.

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