Yodless vs Codless - What's the difference?
yodless | codless |
(phonetics) Lacking a palatal approximant.
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As adjectives the difference between yodless and codless
is that yodless is (phonetics) lacking a palatal approximant while codless is without cod.yodless
English
Alternative forms
* yod-lessAdjective
(-)- In other contexts, yodless forms made the Roubaix-Tourcoing distinctive from their French and Lille equivalents .
- The younger the speaker is, the more yodless is the pronunciation, while the more educated the speaker is, the more yod is used (or retained) in this particular phonological environment.
- Hence yod not only does not strengthen word-initially; it also often disappears, yielding yod-ful and yodless variants in the daughter languages, sometimes even in the same language (cf. Cz už'' - ''juž ).