For a wage earner, gross income is the amount of salary or wages paid to the individual by an employer, before any deductions are taken. For a wage earner, net income is the residual amount of earnings after all deductions have been taken from gross pay, such as payroll taxes and retirement plan contributions. For example, a person earns wages of $1,000, and $300 in deductions are taken from his paycheck.
Coronal consonants are consonants articulated with the flexible front part of the tongue.oronal consonants are consonants articulated with the flexible front part of the tongue.
This paper examines the realization of word-final coronal stops in English (coronal stop deletion: CSD, a.k.a. t/d deletion). Our main interest is the effect of the phonological content of an upcoming word on CSD, e.g., the fact that CSD is more likely to apply if a consonant follows compared to when a vowel follows, and that it is affected by whether a word is followed by a pause.