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phonetic erosion

noun

Definitions

  1. The loss of phonemes from a spoken word (or of words in a phrase) over time, sometimes as…

    The loss of phonemes from a spoken word (or of words in a phrase) over time, sometimes as a result of grammaticalization.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

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

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