| 词汇 | aphetic |
| 释义 | aphetic adjective phonetics specializeduk /əˈfet.ɪk/ us /əˈfet̬.ɪk/ relating to the gradual loss of an unstressed(= weak) vowel sound at the beginning of a word: In spoken English, many people do not pronounce the word "eleven" with three syllables, but use an aphetic variant that sounds like "leven". Aphetic forms and phonetic spelling are very common in this 16th century book. Dictionaries disagree on whether "maze" is an aphetic reduction of "amaze". The pronoun "it" was an aphetic form of the Old English pronoun "hit". The word "it's" is just an aphetic elision of "it is". Linguistics: phonology & phonetics accommodation alliterative alveolar apheresis aphesis assonance diphthong homonym intrusive labial labialize labiodental lateral postconsonantal retroflex retroflexion rhotic rhyme unpronounceable unrepeatable Related wordaphesis |
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