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Assimilation  
  
1152   10:19 صباحاً   date: 2024-01-03
Author : David Hornsby
Book or Source : Linguistics A complete introduction
Page and Part : 269-13


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Assimilation

It is common for one sound to be affected by, or assimilate to, a neighboring sound: we saw that nasal stops are homorganic with a following oral stop, a case of regressive assimilation. In the examples below, the nasal consonant takes the place of articulation of the consonant that follows:

 

The nasal vowels of French have all emerged from an assimilation process, namely nasalization of a vowel in readiness for a nasal consonant. The nasal consonants have subsequently been lost, but remain orthographically: