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12 Cards in this Set
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One sound becomes more like another, or two sounds become more like each other (usually exceptionless laws)
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Assimilation
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One sound becomes less like another, or two sounds become less like each other (usually sporadic, affecting individual words)
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Dissimilation
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Two sounds switch places (mostly sporadic)
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Metathesis
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The loss of a syllable when an adjacent syllable is similar or - rarely - identical (usually affects commonly used words)
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Haplology
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The loss of unstressed sounds
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Elision
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The loss of initial sounds
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Aphaeresis
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The loss of medial sounds
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Syncope
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The loss of final sounds
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Apocope
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The introduction of a sound between two adjacent sounds
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Epenthesis / Anaptyxis
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The addition of a sound at the beginning of a word
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Prothesis
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The addition of a sound at the end of a word
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Epithesis
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Vowels followed by nasal consonants are nasalized
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Nasalization
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