{"id":2115,"date":"2011-09-03T12:58:21","date_gmt":"2011-09-03T11:58:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/sid\/?page_id=2115"},"modified":"2011-10-04T12:16:07","modified_gmt":"2011-10-04T11:16:07","slug":"dissimilation","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/sid\/?page_id=2115","title":{"rendered":":Dissimilation:"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pronunciation <span style=\"color: navy;\"><strong>d\u026a\u02ccs\u026am\u026a\u02c8le\u026a\u0283n<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>A phonological process whereby segments become less similar to one another. Synchronic examples of dissimilation are rare, except perhaps for what might be called dissimilatory elision.  For instance, in many American accents of English an <span style=\"color: navy;\"><strong>r<\/strong><\/span> in the coda of a syllable is often deleted if the word contains another <span style=\"color: navy;\"><strong>r<\/strong><\/span>.  An example is the pronunciation <span style=\"color: navy;\"><strong>b\u0259\u02c8z\u025crk<\/strong><\/span> instead of <span style=\"color: navy;\"><strong>b\u0259r\u02c8z\u025crk<\/strong><\/span> for the word <em>berserk<\/em>.  Occasionally in English the articulation of complex consonant clusters like <span style=\"color: navy;\"><strong>ks\u03b8s<\/strong><\/span> is simplified by dissimilation, so we get, for example, <span style=\"color: navy;\"><strong>s\u026aksts<\/strong><\/span> for <em>sixths<\/em>.  On the other hand, dissimilation processes acting over time are well attested. One good example is the process which changed one of two <span style=\"color: navy;\"><strong>r<\/strong><\/span>  segments within a word into an <span style=\"color: navy;\"><strong>l<\/strong><\/span>  in the development of Latin into modern Romance languages. Thus Latin <em>arbor <\/em>(&#8220;tree&#8221;) became Spanish <em>arbol<\/em>. Latin <em>peregrinus <\/em>(&#8220;pilgrim&#8221;) became French <em>p\u00e9l\u00e9rin<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pronunciation d\u026a\u02ccs\u026am\u026a\u02c8le\u026a\u0283n A phonological process whereby segments become less similar to one another. Synchronic examples of dissimilation are rare, except perhaps for what might be called dissimilatory elision. For instance, in many American accents of English an r in the &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/sid\/?page_id=2115\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":170,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/sid\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2115"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/sid\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/sid\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/sid\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/sid\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2115"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/sid\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2115\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3661,"href":"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/sid\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2115\/revisions\/3661"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/sid\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/170"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/sid\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}