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Phonemic merger

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  1. 1
    The phenomenon in which two different phonemes merge and become replaced by a single phoneme.

    "The first sign of a phonemic merger is that two signs, which hitherto have been kept carefully apart, become used wrongly, e.g. das is written for MHG dar, and aller for MHG alles (Schulze 1967: 38f.)."

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