- arcane - known or understood by very few; mysterious; secret; obscure; esoteric.
- bent (noun) - direction taken, as by one's interests; inclination. / capacity of endurance.
- cadence - modulation or inflection of the voice. / a sequence of notes or chords compromising the close of a musical phrase.
- explicate - analyse and develop (an idea or principle) in detail. / analyse (a literary work) in order to reveal its meaning.
- neologism - a newly coined word or expression. / the coining or use of new words.
- nicety - a fine or subtle detail or distinction. / accuracy or precision. / a detail or aspect of polite social behaviour.
- phoneme - the smallest unit of sound which is significant in a language.
- phonemic - of or relating to the phoneme. / relating to or denoting speech sounds that belong to different phonemes rather than being allophonic variants of the same phoneme.
- prosody - the stress and intonation patterns of an utterance.
- sacrosanct - (especially of a principle, place, or routine) regarded as too important or valuable to be interfered with.
- suprasegmental - denoting a feature an utterance other than the consonantal or vocalic components, for example (in English) stress and intonation.
- topolect - the dialects of a specific area collectively, constituting a variety of a language.
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