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phonemic merger

noun

Definitions

  1. The phenomenon in which two different phonemes merge and become replaced by a single…

    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.).

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

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

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