OXFORD 9000
📚 noun • entry_id 29687

phonemic merger

Meanings (ES + gloss)
convergencia fonémica
The phenomenon in which two different phonemes merge and become replaced by a single phoneme.
The first sign of a phonemic merger is that two signs, which hitherto have been kept carefully apart, become used wrongly, e.g. das is written for MHG dar, and aller for MHG alles…
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