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- Fusion_(phonetics) comment "In phonetics and historical linguistics, fusion, or coalescence, is the merger of features from two or more segments into a single segment. A common form of fusion is found in the development of nasal vowels, which frequently become phonemic when final nasal consonants are lost from a language. This occurred in French and Portuguese. Compare the French words un vin blanc [œ̃ vɛ̃ blɑ̃] \"a white wine\" with their English cognates, one, wine, blank, which retain the n's.".