• In phonology, apocope (/əˈpɒkəpi/) is the loss (elision) of a word-final vowel. In a broader sense, the term can refer to the loss of any final sound...
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  • Rhine Franconian dialects, Palatine German has e-apocope (i.e. loss of earlier final -e), n-apocope (i.e. loss of earlier final n in the suffix -en) and...
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    to eliminate final consonants in Vulgar Latin, either by dropping them (apocope) or adding a vowel after them (epenthesis). Many final consonants were...
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  • an original heavy syllable, the final vowel is often reduced or lost (apocope). The former is common in southern Norrland dialects, as in the infinitive...
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  • sometimes jokingly pronounced "haplogy". Elision, aphaeresis, syncope, and apocope: All are losses of sounds. Elision is the loss of unstressed sounds, aphaeresis...
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  • Arnold [ru], clipping mainly consists of the following types: Final clipping or apocope Initial clipping, apheresis, or procope Medial clipping or syncope Complex...
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    Spanish adjectives are similar to those in most other Indo-European languages. They are generally postpositive, and they agree in both gender and number...
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    Pereira, Manizales and Armenia. The name Paisa derives from the Spanish apocope of Paisano (fellow countryman), but they are also known as "Antioqueños"...
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  • ending there at all. This was caused by a sound change called high vowel apocope, which occurred in the prehistory of Old English. Short -i and -u disappeared...
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  • depending on the language concerned. More generally called n-deletion or n-apocope, it appears to varying extents in all dialects of the Western group of...
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    Examples of apocope of -e in Spanish Latin Spanish Latin Spanish parietem pared mercēdem merced pānem pan mare mar fidēlem fiel mēnsem mes pācem paz...
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  • via Kipchak Turkic selebe, with later metathesis (of l-b to b-l) and apocope changed to *seble, which would have changed its vocalisation in Hungarian...
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  • sixth century CE. It is marked by the loss of Brittonic final syllables (apocope) and the eventual loss of compositional vowels in compound words (syncope)...
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  • Metaplasm Elision—Contraction (grammar) Apheresis (initial) Syncope (medial) Apocope (final) Crasis Synizesis (merge into one syllable without change in writing)...
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    to have the apocope of -o when the word ends with -n, -r and -l, such as in camín (path), rar (rare) and pel (hair). However this apocope of -o but also...
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    */e/ > ne */neː/. The suspected long /eː/ also seems to be resistant to apocope and assimilation which are undergone by the suspected short /e/. Some frequent...
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  • Prothesis Paragoge Unpacking Vowel breaking Elision Apheresis Syncope Apocope Haplology Cluster reduction Transphonologization Compensatory lengthening...
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  • adjacent to a consonant cluster or a final consonant. Apheresis (linguistics) Apocope Clipping (morphology) Clipping (phonetics) Deletion (phonology) Elision...
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  • theory and that of general linguistic attrition, especially word-final apocope and elision. Stocking, George W. (1995). The Ethnographer's Magic and Other...
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    e(i)ks teil(lä) oo "do you (pl.) have?" "don't you (pl.) have (it)?" vowel apocope and common use of the clitic -s in interrogatives (compare eiks to standard...
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  • Prothesis Paragoge Unpacking Vowel breaking Elision Apheresis Syncope Apocope Haplology Cluster reduction Transphonologization Compensatory lengthening...
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  • apheresis, aphaeresis, or aphesis in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Apocope Elision Initial dropping List of phonetics topics Syncope Campbell, Lyle...
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  • Prothesis Paragoge Unpacking Vowel breaking Elision Apheresis Syncope Apocope Haplology Cluster reduction Transphonologization Compensatory lengthening...
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  • Prothesis Paragoge Unpacking Vowel breaking Elision Apheresis Syncope Apocope Haplology Cluster reduction Transphonologization Compensatory lengthening...
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  • spelling of the common Southern Italian familiar term of address, cumpà, the apocoped oxytone form of the word cumpari found in Southern Italian dialects and...
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  • The lenition of voiceless stops Raising/i-affection Lowering/a-affection Apocope Syncope Morphological Changes Creation of conjugated prepositions Loss...
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    result from the diachronic loss of the inherent vowel, e.g. by syncope and apocope in Hindi. When not separating syllables containing consonant clusters (CCV)...
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    syllables and as [ɐ] when in unstressed position and at end of the word. Apocope, i.e., dropping of all of the unstressed vowels at word end,: 92–94  except...
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  • of primer (an apocope of primero) before singular masculine nouns, which is not abbreviated as 1.º but as 1.er, of tercer (an apocope of tercero) before...
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  • Prothesis Paragoge Unpacking Vowel breaking Elision Apheresis Syncope Apocope Haplology Cluster reduction Transphonologization Compensatory lengthening...
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