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In linguistics, synaeresis (/ s ɪ ˈ n ɛr ə s ɪ s /; also spelled syneresis) is a phonological process of sound change in which two adjacent vowels within a word are combined into a single syllable. [1] The opposite process, in which two adjacent vowels are pronounced separately, is known as "diaeresis".
Coalescence is a phonological situation whereby adjacent sounds are replaced by a single sound that shares the features of the two originally adjacent sounds. In other words, coalescence is a type of assimilation whereby two sounds fuse to become one, and the fused sound shares similar characteristics with the two fused sounds.
Most commonly, it refers to the interchange of two or more contiguous segments or syllables, known as adjacent metathesis [1] or local metathesis: [2] ane mone > **ane nome (onset consonants of adjacent syllables)
Adjacent or adjacency may refer to: Adjacent (graph theory) in a graph, two vertices that are both endpoints of the same edge, or two distinct edges that share an end vertex Adjacent (music) , a conjunct step to a note which is next in the scale
Square brackets are used with phonetic notation, whether broad or narrow [17] – that is, for actual pronunciation, possibly including details of the pronunciation that may not be used for distinguishing words in the language being transcribed, but which the author nonetheless wishes to document. Such phonetic notation is the primary function ...
The most common type of sandhi in Irish is assimilation, which means that a sound changes its pronunciation in order to become more similar to an adjacent sound. One type of assimilation in Irish is found when a coronal consonant ( d, l, n, r, s, t ) changes from being broad to being slender before a word that begins with a slender coronal ...
In historical linguistics, a sound change is a change in the pronunciation of a language. A sound change can involve the replacement of one speech sound (or, more generally, one phonetic feature value) by a different one (called phonetic change) or a more general change to the speech sounds that exist (phonological change), such as the merger of two sounds or the creation of a new sound.
[æː] "seems to have been the normal pronunciation in careful speech before 1650, and [ɛː] after 1650". [7] After 1700 it was raised even further, and then diphthongized, leading to the modern standard pronunciation /eɪ/, found in words like name, face, bacon. However, some accents, in the north of England and in Scotland, for example ...