SYNO | assibilation | sibilation |
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Usage Examples English
- Assibilation is a change that happened in Proto-Finnic: the sequence "ti" became "si".
- It is an example of assibilation.
- The lenition tendency of palatalized consonants (by assibilation and deaffrication) is important.
- This feature varies from dialect to dialect and does not follow a consistent east/west pattern, as assibilation is present in some words in both Alaskan Inupiatun and Greenlandic Kalaallisut.
- That set of developments, particularly the assibilation of palatovelars, is referred to as satemisation.
- Some Greek dialects later underwent yet another round of assibilation. [...] shifted to [...] finally in Attic and Ionic but not in Doric.
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