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Pleophony

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polnoglasienoun(phonology) The phenomenon of disyllabic -oro-, -ere- and -olo- reflexes in East Slavic languages of Late Proto-Slavic closed syllable clusters involving a vowel *a, *o, *e followed by a liquid *r or *l.
polyphthongnoun(phonetics) A phoneme that begins with the sound of one vowel or semivowel and transitions through one or more other (semi)vowel sounds.
procopenoun(phonetics, linguistics, prosody) Synonym of apheresis.
plosivizationnoun(phonetics) The process of making or becoming plosive.
plosivisationnounAlternative spelling of plosivization. [(phonetics) The process of making or becoming plosive.]
prodelisionnoun(phonology) A form of elision in which the latter word loses its first vowels.
haplologynoun(phonology, uncountable) The process of deleting one of two almost identical syllables within a word.
orthoëpynounArchaic form of orthoepy. [The study of pronunciation.]
monophthongizationnoun(phonetics) The process of becoming monophthong, for a diphthong or triphthong.
apophonynoun(phonetics) Modification of an internal vowel sound in a word or linguistic root, especially so as to establish a lexical distinction.
synaloephanounAlternative form of synalepha. [The suppression of a vowel at the end of word when it is followed by another word beginning with a vowel.]
phonetic erosionnoun(phonetics, phonology) The loss of phonemes from a spoken word (or of words in a phrase) over time, sometimes as a result of grammaticalization.
depharyngealizationnoun(phonetics) A sound change that removes the pharyngeal component of a sound.
postalveolarizationnoun(phonology) A sound change whereby a sound becomes postalveolar.
velopharyngeal(phonetics) Articulated at the velopharynx. (Those with cleft palate produce such sounds instead of standard sibilants.)
smoothingnounThe act by which something is made smooth.
pharyngealizationnoun(phonology) The act or process of pharyngealizing.
aphoresisnounMisspelling of apheresis. [(phonetics, linguistics, prosody) Elision, suppression, or complete loss of a letter or sound (syllable) from the beginning of a word, such as the development of special from especial.]
paroxytonenoun(linguistics) A paroxytone word.
diaphonenounA sound signal which produces sound by means of a slotted piston moved back and forth by compressed air.

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