Haplology
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Historical sound change |
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General |
Metathesis |
Dissimilation |
Fortition |
Lenition (weakening) |
Sonorization (voicing) |
Spirantization (assibilation) |
Rhotacism |
Debuccalization (loss of place) |
Elision (loss) |
Apheresis (initial) |
Syncope (medial) |
Apocope (final) |
Haplology (similar syllables) |
Fusion |
Cluster reduction |
Compensatory lengthening |
Epenthesis (addition) |
Anaptyxis (vowel) |
Excrescence (consonant) |
Prosthesis (initial) |
Paragoge (final) |
Unpacking |
Vowel breaking |
Assimilation |
Coarticulation |
Palatalization (before front vowels) |
Labialization (before rounded vowels) |
Final devoicing (before silence) |
Vowel harmony |
Consonant harmony |
Cheshirisation (trace remains) |
Nasalization |
Tonogenesis |
Floating tone |
Sandhi (boundary change) |
Crasis (contraction) |
Liaison, linking R |
Consonant mutation |
Tone sandhi |
Hiatus |
Haplology is defined as the elimination of a syllable when two consecutive identical or similar syllables occur. The phenomenon was identified by American philologist Maurice Bloomfield in the 20th century.[1] Linguists sometimes jokingly refer to the phenomenon as "haplogy" (subjecting the word "haplology" to haplology).
- Conditions
- 1) Syllables are both medial; and
- 2) The structure of the two syllables is similar.
[edit] Example
- Basque: sagarrardo > sagardo 'apple cider'
- English (colloquial):
- Latin: nutritrix > nutrix 'nurse'