💡 Words with a Similar Meaning to "Pleophony"
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| Word | Definition |
|---|---|
| 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. |
| plosivisationnoun | Alternative 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. |
| orthoëpynoun | Archaic 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. |
| synaloephanoun | Alternative 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.) |
| smoothingnoun | The act by which something is made smooth. |
| pharyngealizationnoun | (phonology) The act or process of pharyngealizing. |
| aphoresisnoun | Misspelling 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. |
| diaphonenoun | A sound signal which produces sound by means of a slotted piston moved back and forth by compressed air. |
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