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Palsa vs Pausa - What's the difference?

palsa | pausa |

As nouns the difference between palsa and pausa

is that palsa is a mound similar to a pingo but much smaller while pausa is the hiatus between prosodic units.

palsa

English

(wikipedia palsa)

Noun

(en noun)
  • (geomorphology) A mound similar to a pingo but much smaller.

    • Anagrams

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    pausa

    English

    Noun

    (-)
  • (linguistics) The hiatus between prosodic units.
    • Some sound laws operate in pausa only. For example, certain phonemes may be pronounced differently at the beginning or end of a word when no other word precedes or follows within the same prosodic unit.

    Derived terms

    * pausal ----