Matches in DBpedia 2016-04 for { ?s ?p "In phonology, particularly within historical linguistics, dissimilation is a phenomenon whereby similar consonants or vowels in a word become less similar. For example, when a /r/ sound occurs before another in the middle of a word in rhotic dialects of English, the first tends to drop out, as in \"beserk\" for berserk, \"supprise\" for surprise, \"paticular\" for particular, and \"govenor\" for governor – this does not affect the pronunciation of government, which has only one /r/, but English government tends to be pronounced \"goverment\", dropping out the first n.One of the contexts where phonetic dissimilation may take place is where one language borrows a word from another language. An example is the English colonel, whose standard pronunciation is now \"kərnəl\" in English as a result of dissimilation, while the parent word in French and Italian is pronounced \"colonel\"."@en }
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- Dissimilation abstract "In phonology, particularly within historical linguistics, dissimilation is a phenomenon whereby similar consonants or vowels in a word become less similar. For example, when a /r/ sound occurs before another in the middle of a word in rhotic dialects of English, the first tends to drop out, as in \"beserk\" for berserk, \"supprise\" for surprise, \"paticular\" for particular, and \"govenor\" for governor – this does not affect the pronunciation of government, which has only one /r/, but English government tends to be pronounced \"goverment\", dropping out the first n.One of the contexts where phonetic dissimilation may take place is where one language borrows a word from another language. An example is the English colonel, whose standard pronunciation is now \"kərnəl\" in English as a result of dissimilation, while the parent word in French and Italian is pronounced \"colonel\".".