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[f]→[∅]Certainty: 4/5Commonality: 2/5

Deletion Apocope Germanic

Voiceless labiodental fricative to Empty sound / Zero

Deletion of the labiodental fricative [f] can occur in coda positions or as part of a general reduction process in certain dialects.

Phonetic Effects

Deletion, Apocope

Language Examples

English (Dialectal) Germanic

self→sel— coda deletion

handkerchief→handkerchie— historical reduction

Related Transformations

More Germanic Shifts

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

Sources & References

https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/accents-of-english/A9495FCF7CC13D1D11FADB3DE2F335F6

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