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[ie]→[j]Certainty: 5/5Commonality: 3/5

Reduction Romance Glides

Diphthong ie to Voiced palatal approximant

Reduction of the rising diphthong [ie] to the palatal glide [j] often occurs in rapid speech or as part of the development of palatalized consonants.

Phonetic Effects

Reduction, Desyllabification

Language Examples

Romance Romance

[ie]→[j]— Reduction in unstressed environments or fast speech.

Related Transformations

More Romance Shifts

[ã] → [õ] — Raising [a] → [ã] — Assimilatory Nasalization [a] → [∅] — Elision [a] → [ə] — Vowel Reduction [ai] → [e] — Monophthongization

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