[i]→[j]Certainty: 5/5Commonality: 5/5
Close front unrounded vowel to Voiced palatal approximant
High front vowels often compress into glides when followed by another vowel, a process central to the evolution of Romance languages.
Phonetic Effects
Glide Formation, Iotation
Language Examples
filia→figlia— Latin /i/ becomes a palatal glide, eventually leading to the palatal lateral /ʎ/ in Italian.
onion /ʌniən/→[ʌnjən]— Connected speech often glides the unstressed high vowel.
Related Transformations
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