Lenition

It refers to the process of weakening sound in a word. Do you know that the word ‘mother’ is derived from the word ‘moder’ in old English, in which ‘voiced alveolar stop’ [d] is modified into ‘voiced

(inter-) dental fricative’ [ ]. 

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• RULE OF NATURE REFLECTED IN LANGUAGE USAGE
• Assimilation
• Apocope
• Syncope
• Lenition
• Clipping
• Blending
• Performative Sentence
• Imperative Sentence
• Ellipsis Sentence
• Metaphor

Syncope

It refers to the process of reduction of the syllable caused by the omission vowel sound or middle syllable in a word. In many languages this process is rare to find, only a couples of languages which undergo this kind of phenomenon. In English we know the word “episcope” means bishop or pope, however, did you know that it comes from Latin language “episcopus”. Syncope process happens when the final syllable of the word episcopus (us) is deleted, which means it has been modified from four syllables to three syllables. Moreover, in Bahasa Indonesia, it encounters two syllables deletion. 

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• RULE OF NATURE REFLECTED IN LANGUAGE USAGE
• Assimilation
• Apocope
• Syncope
• Lenition
• Clipping
• Blending
• Performative Sentence
• Imperative Sentence
• Ellipsis Sentence
• Metaphor

Apocope

It refers to the process of reduction of the syllable caused by the end vowel deletion in a word. In the old English we know many terms which are modified in the number of syllable in modern English, such as: 

All terms/words in the left, taken from old English, have two syllables in its pronunciations. Along with the development of English those words encounter modification in modern English by altering the number of syllable and deletion of the final vowel.

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• RULE OF NATURE REFLECTED IN LANGUAGE USAGE
• Assimilation
• Apocope
• Syncope
• Lenition
• Clipping
• Blending
• Performative Sentence
• Imperative Sentence
• Ellipsis Sentence
• Metaphor

Assimilation

Assimilation is the process of sound change where one sound is influenced or modified by other sounds. There are two types of assimilation:

1. Regressive assimilation

It happens when the following sound in a word influences the preceding sound.

  

Note:

·          The letter “N” is written in a capital letter since it is still in the form of abstract nasal.
·         You can find a lot of example of regressive assimilation in Bahasa Indonesia.

2.   Progressive assimilation

It happens when the preceding sound influences the following sound since the preceding sound is too dominant. 

 

See Also:
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• RULE OF NATURE REFLECTED IN LANGUAGE USAGE
• Assimilation
• Apocope
• Syncope
• Lenition
• Clipping
• Blending
• Performative Sentence
• Imperative Sentence
• Ellipsis Sentence
• Metaphor

Phonology