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phonemic mergers

phonemic mergers is the plural of phonemic merger.

Meaning of phonemic merger

Noun

phonemic merger (plural phonemic mergers)

  1. The phenomenon in which two different phonemes merge and become replaced by a single phoneme.
    • The first sign of a phonemic merger is that two signs, which hitherto have been kept carefully apart, become used wrongly, e.g. das is written for MHG dar, and aller for MHG alles (Schulze 1967: 38f.).2012, Gerhard Augst, New Trends in Graphemics and Orthography, page 171
    Synonyms:
    merger

Questions about phonemic mergers

What is phonemic mergers the plural of?
Phonemic mergers is the plural of phonemic merger.

Words near phonemic mergers in the dictionary

  1. phoneme
  2. phonemehood
  3. phonemes
  4. phonemic
  5. phonemic merger
  6. phonemic mergers
  7. phonemic split
  8. phonemic splits
  9. phonemical
  10. phonemically
  11. phonemicisation

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