- In phonology,
apocope (/əˈpɒkəpi/) is the loss (elision) of a word-final vowel. In a
broader sense, it can
refer to the loss of any
final sound (including...
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spelling of the
common Southern Italian familiar term of address, ****pà, the
apocoped oxytone form of the word ****pari
found in
Southern Italian dialects and...
- 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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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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sometimes jokingly pronounced "haplogy". Elision, aphaeresis, syncope, and
apocope: All are
losses of sounds.
Elision is the loss of
unstressed sounds, aphaeresis...
- 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...
- e(i)ks teil(lä) oo "do you (pl.) have?" "don't you (pl.) have (it)?"
vowel apocope and
common use of the ****ic -s in
interrogatives (compare eiks to standard...
- 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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Prothesis Paragoge Un****ng
Vowel breaking Elision Apheresis Syncope Apocope Haplology Cluster reduction Transphonologization Compensatory lengthening...
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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...
