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Pauas vs Pausa - What's the difference?

pauas | pausa |

As nouns the difference between pauas and pausa

is that pauas is while pausa is (linguistics) the hiatus between prosodic units.

pauas

English

Noun

(head)

    • 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 ----