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father-bother merger

noun
/ˌfɑːðə ˈbɒðə ˈmɜːdʒə/UK/ˌfɑðɚ ˈbɑðɚ ˈmɝdʒɚ/US/ˌfaðəɾ ˈbɔðəɾ ˈmɛɾdʒəɾ/

Definitions

  1. A phonemic merger in English of the vowels /ɑː/ (as in father) and /ɒ/ (as in bother).

    • The first is the father-bother merger, a loss of rounding contrast in the low back vowels by which the originally contrastive /ɒ/ has been subsumed by /ɑː/ into the fused phoneme /ɑ/.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for father-bother merger. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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