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Sam1947 Posted 16 years ago
Linguistics Studies
Help finding a word
There is a word that describes the phenomenon of moving a consonant in a word when spoken in a way that makes it easier for most people to pronounce.
The only examples I can think of off hand are:
Pedernales (a river in Texas that runs through the late President Lyndon B. Johnson's ranch)
It is widely pronounces as "Perdanales" with the r being moved before the d.
Another example, also from Texas, is:
New Braunfels (a town between San Antonio and Austin)
It is widely pronounces as "New Braunsfel" with the s being moved before the f.
Does anyone know this word? I learned it when taking Spanish in undergraduate courses, but it is an English word that describes this linguistic phenomenon. Now I can't remember what it was.
The only examples I can think of off hand are:
Pedernales (a river in Texas that runs through the late President Lyndon B. Johnson's ranch)
It is widely pronounces as "Perdanales" with the r being moved before the d.
Another example, also from Texas, is:
New Braunfels (a town between San Antonio and Austin)
It is widely pronounces as "New Braunsfel" with the s being moved before the f.
Does anyone know this word? I learned it when taking Spanish in undergraduate courses, but it is an English word that describes this linguistic phenomenon. Now I can't remember what it was.
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Sorry...both of the above should be "widely pronounced as", not "widely prounces as." I so hope we have some linguistics scholars who are going to have the answer to this!
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How do I get to the linguistics forum? I don't see anything labeled that among the forums.
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At the top of the Home page click on Forums, then scroll down to the section called "English for Specific Purposes."
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Thank you for that suggestion, but when I go to the Home Page and click on Forums, there is not a topic called "English for Specific Purposes shown there. Do I have to get some kind of access to that before I can see it?
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What I am looking for is a word that describes the phenomenon of moving a consonant in a word, when spoken, to make it easier for most people to pronounce.
The only examples I can think of off hand are:
Pedernales (a river in Texas that runs through the late President Lyndon B. Johnson's ranch)
It is widely pronounced as "Perdanales" with the r being moved before the d
The only examples I can think of off hand are:
Pedernales (a river in Texas that runs through the late President Lyndon B. Johnson's ranch)
It is widely pronounced as "Perdanales" with the r being moved before the d
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I believe the linguistinc term you are looking for is the pronunciation phenomenon of metathesis:
jew-el-ry > jew-le-ry; real-tor > re-la-tor; ath-lete > ath-e-lete; pun-dit > pun-dint.
jew-el-ry > jew-le-ry; real-tor > re-la-tor; ath-lete > ath-e-lete; pun-dit > pun-dint.
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I moved the first thread to linguistics, and found the other one, so I've merged them.
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That's it! Thanks. I just could not for the life of me remember the word. I love having a forum where I can put my addled brain at rest!
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