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  • They do so by lexical wrinkles like the paradoxical "silence-speaking" itself of this same junctural ligature.

    Phonemanography: Romantic to Victorian 2008

  • When given over, by contrast, to full phonemic viabilitly, soundplay within and across lexemes may instead permanently unsettle a given designation — reassigning it (though undecidably) to an alternate junctural enunciation on the spot.

    Phonemanography: Romantic to Victorian 2008

  • The inaugural "O" is only confirmed as vocative, that is, when the first junctural lurch of "O W" is rounded out by the equally opened-mouthed apposition that results in the line's coming phonetic increment, "thou (w) breath of autumn's being."

    Phonemanography: Romantic to Victorian 2008

  • All of his examples, however, turn in this way on the junctural equivocation of two (or three) abutting words, so that such phrasal alternatives (rather than full-sentence variants) are predominantly dependent on what

    Notes on 'Phonemanography: Romantic to Victorian' 2008

  • The failure of the Obama programs in 2009 to stabilize the economy in this junctural year will raise the possibility of Depression in 2010 to at least a 50-50 possibility.

    GlobalResearch.ca 2009

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