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Definitions of unpacking in various dictionaries:
verb - remove from its packing
verb - to remove the contents of
UNPACKING - In historical linguistics and language contact, unpacking is the separation of the features of a segment into distinct segments. Perhaps the most co...
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Possible Crossword Clues |
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Removals, just in case |
With case-loads to work through, shelving everything? |
The object of which is getting an empty case |
Last Seen in these Crosswords & Puzzles |
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Aug 30 2006 The Telegraph - Cryptic |
Mar 28 2001 The Times - Cryptic |
May 24 1999 Irish Times (Crosaire) |
Unpacking description |
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In historical linguistics and language contact, unpacking is the separation of the features of a segment into distinct segments. * Perhaps the most common example of unpacking is the separation of nasal vowels into vowel plus nasal consonant when borrowed into languages which don't have nasal vowels. This can be seen in English borrowings of French and Portuguese words, such as monsoon [mnsun] from Portuguese monção [mõs], but occurs widely, as in Lingala [balansi] from French [bals] "balance". Here the nasality of the vowel is separated out as a nasal consonant. If this did not happen, the nasality would be lost. * Unpacking occurs not just in borrowings, but within a language over time. Sanskrit syllabic [r] has become [] in Hindi, which has no syllabic consonants; the rhoticity is maintained by the [], while the syllabic feature is separated out as a vowel. |