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Dictionary of language and linguistics 798neuter [Lat. neuter ‘neither one nor theother’] genderneutral vowelschwaneutralizationPrague School term for suspension of a phonological opposition in particular positions.In English, the opposition of short and long vowels is neutralized in word-final positionunder stress, long vowels being the realizations of the corresponding archiphonemes.Thus there are no [ti], and [sju], but only [ti:], and [sju:], respectively.ReferencesAkamatsu, T. 1988. The theory of neutralization and the archiphoneme in functional phonology.Amsterdam.Davidsen-Nielsen, N. 1978. Neutralization and archiphoneme: two phonological concepts andtheir history. Copenhagen.phonologyneutralized oppositionoppositionnexus [Lat. nexus ‘binding together; bond’]Syntactic type of predicative joining in Jespersen’s (1937) theory (e.g. The book isexpensive) which Jespersen distinguishes from junction, which is attributive. The factthat nexus constructions can be turned into junctions corresponds to the transformationalrelationships between both types: the expensive book—The book is expensive.