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  2. Syncope (phonology) - Wikipedia

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    Verbs: Irish: imir (to play) should become * imirím (I play). However, the addition of the -ím causes syncope and the second-last syllable vowel i is lost so imirim becomes imrím. Hebrew: כָּתַב, katav (katav), (he) wrote, becomes כָּתְבוּ, katvu (katvu), (they) wrote, when the third-person plural ending ־וּ (-u) is added ...

  3. Romance linguistics - Wikipedia

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    Loss of the Latin synthetic passive voice, replaced by an analytic construction comparable to English "it is/was done". Loss of deponent verbs , replaced by active-voice verbs. Replacement of the Latin future tense with a new tense formed (usually) by a periphrasis of infinitive + present tense of habēre "have", which usually contracts into a ...

  4. Impersonal passive voice - Wikipedia

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    The impersonal passive voice is a verb voice that decreases the valency of an intransitive verb (which has valency one) to zero. [1]: 77 The impersonal passive deletes the subject of an intransitive verb. In place of the verb's subject, the construction instead may include a syntactic placeholder, also called a dummy. This placeholder has ...

  5. What Causes Aphonia (Loss of Voice)? - AOL

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    Aphonia is the medical term for losing your voice. Allergies, respiratory infections, and talking too loudly can all cause aphonia to occur. Skip to main content. 24/7 Help. For premium support ...

  6. Lenition - Wikipedia

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    Lenition includes the loss of a feature, such as deglottalization, in which glottalization or ejective articulation is lost: [kʼ] or [kˀ] > [k]. The tables below show common sound changes involved in lenition. In some cases, lenition may skip one of the sound changes.

  7. Apheresis (linguistics) - Wikipedia

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    In a broader sense, it can refer to the loss of any initial sound (including consonants) from a word or, in a less technical sense, to the loss of one or more sounds from the beginning of a word. [1] The more specific term aphesis (and its adjective aphetic ) is sometimes used to refer to the loss of unstressed vowels .

  8. Who Went Home and Who Made It Through Night 1 on 'The Voice ...

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    When you hear music out there, his voice feels like what’s happening right now in the world.” The Voice airs Monday night at 8 p.m. ET/PT and Tuesday night at 8:30 p.m. ET/PT on NBC. Streaming ...

  9. Voice (grammar) - Wikipedia

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    The active voice is the most commonly used in many languages and represents the "normal" case, in which the subject of the verb is the agent. In the active voice, the subject of the sentence performs the action or causes the happening denoted by the verb. Sentence (1) is in active voice, as indicated by the verb form saw.