英语单词“aphesis”的中文翻译、释义及用法解析

单词 aphesis 释义 aphesisnoun[U]phoneticsspecializeduk/??f.?.s?s/us/??f.?.s?s/thegraduallossof anunstressed(=weak)vowelsoundat thebeginningof a word, forexample"lone" from "alone":To acertaindegree, aphesis may beobservedin anyinformalvarietyofEnglish.Thesechangescould be theresultof aphesis, in which words areerodedoftheirinitialunstressedvowels.

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• Word-initialvowelsseemtodisappearmore often thanconsonants, and wecallthisprocessaphesis.
• He is doingresearchon aphesis in theEnglishsoundsystem.
• Theeffectof aphesis can beseenin manycreolewords for "American", such as "meriken" in Haitian.
• Aphesis is aphenomenonthat weassociatewithspokenlanguageand iscommonincreolesandpidgins.

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Linguistics: phonology & phonetics

• alliterative
• alveolar
• apheresis
• aphetic
• approximant
• aspirate
• guttural
• homonym
• lax
• lenis
• macron
• misemphasis
• mispronunciation
• phonology
• schwa
• semivowel
• sibilance
• sibilant
• speech pathology
• suprasegmental

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