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  2. Phonological history of English consonants - Wikipedia

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    When final nasal consonants are deleted, the nasality is maintained on the preceding vowel. When voiced stops are deleted, the length of the preceding vowel is maintained. Consonants remaining from reduced final clusters may be eligible for deletion. The deletion occurs especially if the final consonant is a nasal or a stop.

  3. Egyptian Arabic phonology - Wikipedia

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    For children under two, syllable reduction and final consonant deletion are the most common phonological processes. [23] De-emphasis, involving the loss of the secondary articulation for emphatic consonants (e.g., realizing emphatic / sˤ / as [ s ] ), may reflect the motoric difficulty of emphatic consonants, which are rare in world languages ...

  4. Cluster reduction - Wikipedia

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    Not only is cluster reduction common in specific languages, but it occurs in world Englishes, as well. For example, final consonant cluster reduction is common among those speaking dialects of Singapore English, and they may use cluster reduction strategies known as metathesis, glottalization, and deletion.

  5. Phonological history of English consonant clusters - Wikipedia

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    When a consonant cluster ending in a stop is followed by another consonant or cluster in the next syllable, the final stop in the first syllable is often elided. This may happen within words or across word boundaries. Examples of stops that will often be elided in this way include the [t] in postman and the [d] in cold cuts or band saw. [41]

  6. Apocope - Wikipedia

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    In phonology, apocope (/ ə ˈ p ɒ k ə p i / [1] [2]) is the loss of a word-final vowel. In a broader sense, the term can refer to the loss of any final sound (including consonants) from a word. [3] Academic linguists term the resultant word-form (following the operation of apocope) an apocopation.

  7. 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 ]

  8. Phonological development - Wikipedia

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    Weak syllable deletion: omission of an unstressed syllable in the target word, e.g., [nænæ] for ‘banana’ - Final consonant deletion: omission of the final consonant in the target word, e.g., [pikʌ] for ‘because’ - Reduplication: production of two identical syllables based on one of the target word syllables, e.g., [baba] for ‘bottle’

  9. Phonological history of French - Wikipedia

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    Loss of final consonants before a word beginning with a consonant. That produces a three-way pronunciation for many words (alone, followed by a vowel, followed by a consonant), which is still maintained in the words six "six" and dix "ten" (and until recently neuf "nine"), e.g. dix /dis/ "ten" but dix amis /diz aˈmi/ "ten friends" and dix ...