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Assimilation

Assimilation. An Animated and Narrated Glossary of Terms used in Linguistics presents. Try saying …. football Don’t be silly 10 kings If you said these words quickly, you’re likely to have made the pronunciations in blue . What’s going on?. foopball. dombe silly. teng kings.

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Assimilation

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  1. Assimilation An Animated and Narrated Glossary of Terms used in Linguistics presents

  2. Try saying … • football • Don’t be silly • 10 kings If you said these words quickly, you’re likely to have made the pronunciations in blue. What’s going on? foopball dombe silly teng kings

  3. Assimilation Assimilation: the process of becoming similar/identical. Example: t ball foo [labial] p When t  p, it becomes more like the following b. This is a case of anticipatory assimilation to the place of articulation of the following segment.

  4. Local and Long Distance • Assimilation can be local, affecting adjacent items only, or long distance. Example from Sundanese (Odden 2005:57) mõhẽhẽd ‘poor’ m o h e h e d [nasal]

  5. Summary • In phonology, assimilation is the process where two entities become identical/similar. • Assimilation can affect vowels, consonants and even other phonological entities like tone. • Assimilation can happen • Leftward, where something changes to become more like its left neighbor (e.g. Sundanese nasal assimilation) This typically happens by the left neighbor spreading a particular (set of) feature(s) rightwards. • Rightward, where something changes to become more like its right neighbor (e.g. English football as “foopball”) This typically happens by the right neighbor spreading a particular (set of) feature(s) leftwards.

  6. The End Wee, Lian-Hee and Winnie H.Y. Cheung (2009) An animated and narrated glossary of terms used in Linguistics. Hong Kong Baptist University.

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