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characteristics with the two fused sounds. Some examples in English include ‘don’t you’ -> /dəʊnt ju/ -> . In this instance, /t/ and /j/ have fused to . /tʃ/ is a palato-alveolar sound; its palatal feature is derived from /j/ while its alveolar is from /t/. Another English example is ‘would you’ -> /wʊd ju/ -> . There are examples in other languages, such as Chumburung where /ɪ̀wú ɪ̀sá/ -> /ɪ̀wúɪ̀sá/ becomes - ‘three horns’. In this case, /ɪ/ is retained in the coalescence and the rising tone on /u/ appears on the coalesced sound.
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Accordingly, a variety of alternative terms have arisen, not all of which avoid the problem of the traditional terms. Regressive assimilation is also known as right-to-left, leading, or anticipatory assimilation. Progressive assimilation is also known as left-to-right, perseveratory, preservative, lagging, or lag assimilation. The terms anticipatory and lag are used here.
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other hand non-reductive coalescence have no reduction in sound segments even though there is evidence of fusion. For example, in Shona, (they sell) becomes (to sell). Here, the original sound does not reduce with respect to sound segments even though the rising tone on the vowels in the coalesced form indicates the fusion of /á/ to the vowels.
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is no longer the structure /bt/ subject to the partial assimilation of devoicing of /b/ and full assimilation to produce . Over time, phonetic as a frequent assimilation of /kt/ and /bt/ was rather reinterpreted as reflecting /tt/. The structural sequence /kt/ is now all but absent in Italian, since
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Although all four occur, changes in regard to a following adjacent segment account for virtually all assimilatory changes and most of the regular ones. Assimilations to an adjacent segment are vastly more frequent than assimilations to a nonadjacent one. Those radical asymmetries might contain hints
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The physiological or psychological mechanisms of coarticulation are unknown, and coarticulation is often loosely referred to as a segment being "triggered" by an assimilatory change in another segment. In assimilation, the phonological patterning of the language, discourse styles and accent are some
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There are two major types of coalescence: reductive and unreductive. Reductive coalescence is the type of coalescence where sound segments are reduced after fusion is made. For example, in Xhosa, /i - lˈalaini/ becomes /e - lˈoleni/ (side). The /a-i/ segment in the first form reduces to /e/. On the
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Assimilation occurs in two different types: complete assimilation, in which the sound affected by assimilation becomes exactly the same as the sound causing assimilation, and partial assimilation, in which the sound becomes the same in one or more features but remains different in other features.
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is "Pre-School Children's Knowledge of English Phonology" by Charles Read, published in 1971. The study discussed in this paper focuses on how children in pre-school analyze the phonetic aspect of language in order to determine the proper spelling of English words. Read noticed that many of the
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If a sound changes with reference to a following segment, it is traditionally called "regressive assimilation". Changes with reference to a preceding segment are traditionally called "progressive". Many find those terms confusing, as they seem to mean the opposite of the intended meaning.
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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
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all items in popular speech underwent the same restructuring, /kt/ > /tt/. On the rare occasion that Italian /kt/ is encountered, however, the same assimilation that triggered the restructuring can occur at the phonetic level. For example, the medical term
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Like in those examples, sound segments typically assimilate to a following sound, but they may also assimilate to a preceding one. Assimilation most commonly occurs between immediately adjacent-sounds but may occur between sounds that are separated by others.
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pronounced with phonetic rather than . In this case, becomes since is more phonetically similar to . In other cases, the change is accepted as canonical for that word or phrase, especially if it is recognized in standard spelling:
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Occasionally, two sounds (invariably adjacent) may influence each other in reciprocal assimilation. When such a change results in a single segment with some of the features of both components, it is known as coalescence or fusion.
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Anticipatory assimilation to an adjacent segment is the most common type of assimilation by far, and typically has the character of a conditioned sound change, i.e., it applies to the whole lexicon or part of it. For example,
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in which the phonetics of a vowel are influenced by the phonetics of a vowel in a following syllable, are common and in the nature of sound laws. Such changes abound in the histories of
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has been seen in American English, British English, Australian English, and New Zealand English. It is suspected that this change has occurred due to assimilation.
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has slowly been replaced by a post-alveolar affricate instead, resulting in the all-postalveolar consonant clusters and . This phenomenon also occurs in
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of pairs of endings in Finnish is not the operation of an assimilatory innovation, but it is probably the outbirth of such an innovation long ago.
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as "chribls" and "jragin", respectively. In a different test, Read also found that many of the children believed that words like
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Lag assimilation at a distance is rare and usually sporadic (except when part of a broader change, as for the Sanskrit
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There has been a notable change recognized across a variety of English dialects regarding the pronunciation of the
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becoming labialized as in "boot" or "ball" in some accents. This article describes both processes under the term
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Anticipatory assimilation at a distance is rare and usually merely an accident in the history of a specific word.
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This is the case even in slow, highly-articulated speech; excepting some unlearned speakers, as well as
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Lag assimilation to an adjacent segment is tolerably common and often has the nature of a sound law.
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in which one segment influences another to produce an allophonic variation, such as vowels becoming
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in which if there were two different sibilants as the onset of successive syllables, a plain
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the vowel, becomes voiceless when adjacent to a word-final voiceless nonsibilant:
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Smith, Bridget J.; Mielke, Jeff; Magloughlin, Lyra; Wilbanks, Eric (2019-06-19).
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across languages, assimilation can occur either within a word or between words.
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Vowel Processes in Nguni: Resolving the Problem of Unacceptable VV Sequences
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Another example of a regular change is the sibilant assimilation of
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The voiced-voiceless distinction and assimilation of voice in Dutch
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also exhibit assimilation when the characteristics of neighbouring
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This does not apply across word boundaries, so that the placename
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children involved in the study misspelled words that began with
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In contrast, the word "cupboard", although it is historically a
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Between segments separated by one or more intervening segments.
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may exhibit tone assimilation (in effect tonal umlaut), but
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It occurs in normal speech but becomes more common in more
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One of the first papers that discussed the affrication of
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about the mechanisms involved, but they are not obvious.
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However, the diverse and common assimilations known as
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There are four configurations found in assimilations:
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is a sound change in which some phonemes (typically
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may be too technical for most readers to understand
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1788: 1780: 1772: 1756:; > PGmc 1745: 1736: 1727: 1719: 1714: 1711: 1692: 1674: 1656: 1633: 1569: 1564: 1530: 1517:"mice" > 1499: 1476: 1434: 1420: 1416: 1412: 1408: 1397: 1371: 1360: 1356: 1348: 1343: 1339: 1335: 1331: 1327: 1323: 1321: 1258: 1253: 1250:handkerchief 1249: 1234: 1210: 1206: 1202: 1198: 1194: 1177: 1173: 1164:assimilation 1163: 1137: 1133:sound change 1122: 1118: 1035:and "board" 1010: 909:, and their 821: 816: 812: 808: 804: 799: 795: 788:rapid speech 785: 769:Assimilation 768: 767: 755:and ⟨ 737: 551:Vowel hiatus 476:Velarization 454:Assimilation 453: 431:Nasalization 309:Assibilation 259:Sound change 252: 237: 219: 210: 200: 193: 186: 179: 167: 155:Please help 150:verification 147: 117: 108: 92: 68: 61: 55: 54:Please help 51: 2303:(1): 1–34. 2126:progressive 1872:Old Avestan 1519:Old English 1293:"bed" > 1156:soft palate 1154:) when the 935:voiced stop 798:of English 694:Chain shift 689:Vowel shift 609:Affrication 598:Other types 546:Tone sandhi 436:Tonogenesis 263:alternation 2391:Categories 2145:References 2109:regressive 2019:Epenthesis 1907:> Lat. 1750:> Lat. 1685:- "rabbit" 1238:in English 1129:diachronic 1125:synchronic 773:consonants 614:Gemination 575:Synaeresis 344:Epenthesis 272:Metathesis 183:newspapers 57:improve it 2402:Phonetics 2317:0017-8055 2273:197750120 2265:2397-1835 2150:Citations 1934:(written 1924:(written 1469:Ratitovec 1462:Rakitovec 1144:nasalized 1015:of "cup" 817:explosion 805:implosion 664:Rhotacism 584:Synizesis 579:diaeresis 558:Synalepha 536:linking R 491:Metaphony 401:Haplology 386:Apheresis 361:Unpacking 351:Prothesis 335:Fortition 63:talk page 1978:See also 1913:"lily". 1881:Sanskrit 1777:enclitic 1762:> OE 1724:becomes 1636:Sanskrit 1625:> OE 1611:> OE 1563:> ME 1495:Albanian 1409:troubles 1322:Italian 1226:Examples 1220:cheremes 1013:compound 813:-plosion 753:/ / 749:Help:IPA 639:Iotacism 634:Betacism 624:Fronting 619:Clipping 604:Apophony 356:Paragoge 292:Lenition 2372:Sources 1904:leirion 1868:Avestan 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Assimilation (linguistics)
Language assimilation
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verification
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"Assimilation" phonology
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Sound change
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Metathesis
Quantitative metathesis
Lenition
Consonant gradation
Consonant voicing and devoicing
Assibilation
Spirantization
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