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inflection
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inflection noun accent, accentuation, cadence, expression, intonation, modulation, pitch, stress, tone, voice change
Associated concepts: demeanor of a witness, polygraph test
See also: intonation, stress


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Beckmann argues that English has a much flimsier system of such consistency-checks than other languages (almost no case endings compared to Latin or Russian, no gender for nouns, few verb-endings corresponding to the subject, etc.
These include case endings for articles and adjectives, say, to agree with their nouns.
the paradigmatic difference between the types exemplified by OE stan "stone" and OE scip "ship" is limited to two case endings only, viz.
 
 
 
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