transcription delimiters. In linguistics and especially phonology, functional load, or phonemic load, is the collection of words that contain a certain pronunciation...

also in parts of Zimbabwe and Lesotho. It has perhaps the heaviest functional load of click consonants in a Bantu language (approximately tied with Yeyi)...

to have either prepositions or postpositions; and not both equally. Functional load: elements within a linguistic sub-system are made distinct to avoid...

largest in the world. It is also notable for having perhaps the heaviest functional load of click consonants, with one count finding that 82% of basic vocabulary...

it more functional and useful. It provides privacy, affords security, and gives protection against heat, cold, sun or rain. In housing, load-bearing walls...

Non-functional testing is testing software for its non-functional requirements: the way a system operates, rather than specific behaviors of that system...

proSOdic. In English, such stress patterns carry relatively little functional load, especially in contrast to tone languages, such as Mandarin. That is...

Functional testing can evaluate compliance to functional requirements. Sometimes, functional testing is a quality assurance (QA) process. Functional testing...

bearing low functional load), but in word-initial position they remained allophonic. In Modern Hebrew, the distinction has a higher functional load due to...

disregard tone entirely, especially when it does not carry a heavy functional load, as in Somali and many other languages of Africa and the Americas....

Load testing is the process of putting demand on a structure or system and measuring its response. The term load testing or stress testing is used in different...

are distinct vowels, and if they are, the difference has a very low functional load. For dialects that use orthographic ⟨ⲉⲓ⟩ for a single vowel, there...

Activity During Rest and Gastric Water Load in Subtypes of Functional Dyspepsia: A Preliminary Brain Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging Study". Journal...

contrastive in word-medial and final position (though bearing low functional load), but in word-initial position they remained allophonic. This is evidenced...

found only in loanwords: square brackets indicate those with "very low functional load". The arrangement is roughly geographical. In many Indo-Aryan languages...

Chao (1948), p. 24. Surendran, Dinoj; Levow, Gina-Anne (2004), "The functional load of tone in Mandarin is as high as that of vowels" (PDF), in Bel, Bernard;...

reinforces the phonemic nature of the opposition and increases its functional load. It is now well-established in all kinds of London-flavoured accents...

degradation of the language). The functional load is relatively low, and as often happens, similar sounds with low functional loads merge. There are great differences...

In systems engineering and requirements engineering, a non-functional requirement (NFR) is a requirement that specifies criteria that can be used to judge...

the direct structural and functional connection between living bone and the surface of a load-bearing artificial implant ("load-bearing" as defined by Albrektsson...

tones also occurring, generally in French loanwords. Tones have a low functional load, but minimal pairs exist: dü 'give birth' versus dû 'hole'. Monosyllabic...

The term load testing or stress testing is used in different ways in the professional software testing community. Load testing generally refers to the...

('Yiddish'), are marginal. The distinction between e and ej carries a light functional load, in the core vocabulary perhaps only distinctive before alveolar sonorants...

might be because in tone languages the tone melody carries more of the functional load of communication while non-tonal phonology carries proportionally less...

and oral rendition (poetic koine). Others are not as clear about the functional load of this variety in pre-Islamic times. A third group of scholars (Geyer...

toned language even though tone itself is not provide too much of a functional load like other languages that are also considered to be toned. All consonants...

colloquial /ˈdavid/. Historically, stress was phonemic, but bore low functional load. While minimal pairs existed (e.g. בָּֽנוּ /ˈbaːnuː/, 'in/with us'...

'Edomite'. Blau (2010:117–118) /ɔ̆/ is clearly phonemic but bears minimal functional load. Sáenz-Badillos (1993:110) /ă/ is written both with mobile šwa ⟨ְ⟩...

is displayed by Northern Temiar, which has 30 vocalic nuclei. The functional load of the nasal/oral contrast is not very high in Aslian languages (not...

velar" series as back-velar or uvular (see above). Given the minimal functional load of the plain-velar/palatovelar distinction, if there was never any...