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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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