Usually means: Change influenced by preceding sounds.
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▸ noun:  (phonetics, phonology) An assimilation whereby a sound becomes more like the preceding sound.

Similar:
dissimilation, merger, advergence, metaphony, yod coalescence, phonemic merger, compensatory lengthening, coalescence, gradation, consonantism, more...

Opposite:
segregation, isolation, exclusion

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Similar:
dissimilation, merger, advergence, metaphony, yod coalescence, phonemic merger, compensatory lengthening, coalescence, gradation, consonantism, more...

Opposite:
segregation, isolation, exclusion



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