It refers to the process of weakening sound in a word. Do you know that the word ‘mother’ is derived from the word ‘moder’ in old English, in which ‘voiced alveolar stop’ [d] is modified into ‘voiced
(inter-) dental fricative’ [ ].
See Also:
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- RULE OF NATURE REFLECTED IN LANGUAGE USAGE
- Assimilation
- Apocope
- Syncope
- Lenition
- Clipping
- Blending
- Performative Sentence
- Imperative Sentence
- Ellipsis Sentence
- Metaphor
