Contains

• omission

  Any process whereby sounds or words are left out of spoken words or phrases.

• lexicalization

  The process of making a word to express a concept.

• fusion

  The merging of adjacent sounds or syllables or words.

• derivation

  (descriptive linguistics) the process whereby new words are formed from existing words...

• drift

  A process of linguistic change over a period of time.

• infection

  (phonetics) the alteration of a speech sound under the influence of a neighboring sou...

• agglutination

  The building of words from component morphemes that retain their form and meaning...

• assimilation

  A linguistic process by which a sound becomes similar to an adjacent sound.

• dissimilation

  A linguistic process by which one of two similar sounds in a word becomes less like...

• syneresis

  The contraction of two vowels into a diphthong.

• metathesis

  A linguistic process of transposition of sounds or syllables within a word or words within...