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Excrescence Germanic

Empty sound / Zero to Voiceless bilabial plosive

Excrescence of [p] is a common phonetic process where a voiceless stop is inserted between a labial nasal [m] and a following voiceless sound.

Phonetic Effects

Excrescence, Labial Transition

Language Examples

English Germanic

æmettig→empty— Old English to Modern English

Thomson→Thompson— name development

hamster→hampster— informal/phonetic variant

Related Transformations

More Germanic Shifts

[a] → [ã] — Assimilatory Nasalization [a] → [∅] — Elision [a] → [ʔ] — Glottalization [a] → [ə] — Vowel Reduction [æ] → [ɛ] — Vowel Raising

Sources & References

Campbell, L. (2013). Historical Linguistics.

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