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Noun Concept
Categories: Assimilation (linguistics)
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fusion  coalescence  vowel coalescence
EN
The merging of adjacent sounds or syllables or words WordNet 3.0
English:
phonetics
linguistics
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The merging of adjacent sounds or syllables or words WordNet 3.0 & Open English WordNet
In phonetics and historical linguistics, fusion, or coalescence, is a sound change where two or more segments with distinctive features merge into a single segment. Wikipedia
The merger of phonological features of two speech segments into one feature Wikipedia Disambiguation
Sound change where phonological segments with distinctive features blend into a single segment Wikidata
The act of merging separate elements, or the result thereof. Wiktionary
IS A
linguistic process
sound law
HAS KIND
syncretism
syneresis
OPPOSITE OF
unpacking
WordNet 3.0 & Open English WordNet
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fusion
Wikipedia
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fusion (phonetics)
Wikidata
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fusion
Wiktionary
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fusion
Wikipedia Redirections
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coalescence (linguistics), Fusion (linguistics), vowel coalescence
Wikidata Alias
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coalescence

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