syncope
Sign in to savelinguistic process whereby weak phonemes disappear from words
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In phonology, syncope (/ˈsɪŋkəpi/; from Ancient Greek: συγκοπή, romanized: sunkopḗ, lit. 'cutting up') is the loss of one or more sounds from the interior of a word, especially the loss of an unstressed vowel. It is found in both synchronic and diachronic analyses of languages. Its opposite, whereby sounds are added, is epenthesis.
Synchronic analysis
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Hebrew
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poetry
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Irish
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Ancient Greek
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phonology
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Leicester
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Worcester
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genitive case
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syncope
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assimilation
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affricate consonant
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metathesis
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vowel harmony
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inflection
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Proto-Germanic
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