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  2. Elision - Wikipedia

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    In linguistics, an elision or deletion is the omission of one or more sounds (such as a vowel, a consonant, or a whole syllable) in a word or phrase. However, these terms are also used to refer more narrowly to cases where two words are run together by the omission of a final sound. [ 1 ]

  3. Dissimilation - Wikipedia

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    In English, r-deletion occurs when a syllable is unstressed and /r/ may drop out altogether, as in "deteriate" for deteriorate and "tempature" for temperature, a process called haplology. When the /r/ is found in /bru/ , it may change to /j/ .

  4. Haplology - Wikipedia

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    Haplology (from Greek ἁπλόος haplóos "simple" and λόγος lógos, "speech") is, in spoken language, the elision (elimination or deletion) of an entire syllable or a part of it through dissimilation (a differentiating shift that affects two neighboring similar sounds).

  5. Syncope (phonology) - Wikipedia

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    However, the addition of the -ím causes syncope and the second-last syllable vowel i is lost so imirim becomes imrím. כָּתַב, katav (katav), (he) wrote, becomes כָּתְבוּ, katvu (katvu), (they) wrote, when the third-person plural ending ־וּ (-u) is added. In some nouns; inis (island) should become * inise in the genitive case.

  6. Phonological history of English consonants - Wikipedia

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    Final consonant deletion is the nonstandard deletion of single consonants in syllable-final position occurring for some AAVE speakers [23] resulting in pronunciations like: bad - [bæː] con - [kɑ̃] foot - [fʊ] five - [faɪ] good - [ɡʊː] When final nasal consonants are deleted, the nasality is maintained on the preceding vowel.

  7. H-dropping - Wikipedia

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    H-dropping or aitch-dropping is the deletion of the voiceless glottal fricative or "H-sound", [h].The phenomenon is common in many dialects of English, and is also found in certain other languages, either as a purely historical development or as a contemporary difference between dialects.

  8. Phonological history of English - Wikipedia

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    /u/ normally became /o/ in a final syllable except when absolutely word-final. [16] In medial syllables, short /æ, a, e/ are deleted; [17] short /i, u/ are deleted following a long syllable but usually remain following a short syllable (except in some present-tense verb forms), merging to /e/ in the process; and long vowels are shortened.

  9. Apocope - Wikipedia

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    Some languages have apocopations that are internalized as mandatory forms. In Spanish and Italian, for example, some adjectives that come before the noun lose the final vowel or syllable if they precede a noun (mainly) in the masculine singular form. In Spanish, some adverbs and cardinal and ordinal numbers have apocopations as well. Adjectives

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