Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

phonemic merger

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.43 in modern English

Syllables: phone-mic merg-er
IPA

26

Scrabble Score

14

Letters

3

Syllables

10

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

The phenomenon in which two different phonemes merge and become replaced by a single phoneme.

Example Sentences

"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 (Schulze 1967: 38f.)."

Inflected Forms

phonemic mergers (plural)

Synonyms

merger

Antonyms

phonemic split

Questions

What does phonemic merger mean?: The phenomenon in which two different phonemes merge and become replaced by a single phoneme.

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