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Noun Concept
Categories: Prosody (linguistics), Phonology, Figures of speech, All articles needing additional references
EN
syncope  syncopation
EN
(phonology) the loss of sounds from within a word (as in `fo'c'sle' for `forecastle') WordNet 3.0
English:
phonetics
phonology
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(phonology) the loss of sounds from within a word (as in `fo'c'sle' for `forecastle') WordNet 3.0 & Open English WordNet
In phonology, syncope is the loss of one or more sounds from the interior of a word, especially the loss of an unstressed vowel. Wikipedia
The loss of one or more sounds, particularly an unstressed vowel, from the interior of a word Wikipedia Disambiguation
Linguistic process whereby weak phonemes disappear from words Wikidata
The deletion of phonemes from a word, or from a phrase treated as a unit. OmegaWiki
IS A
articulation
metaplasm
HAS KIND
aphaeresis
CATEGORY DOMAIN
phonology
DERIVATION
syncopate
WordNet 3.0 & Open English WordNet
EN
syncope, syncopation
Wikipedia
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syncope (phonology)
Wikidata
EN
syncope
OmegaWiki
EN
syncope
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Syncope (phonetics)

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