Relating to haplology; describing the process where similar adjacent sounds or syllables merge into a single sound.
From haplology (haplos + -logy) + -ic suffix. Formed to describe the processes and conditions involved in sound simplification in linguistic evolution.
When you say 'family' as 'famly' or 'probably' as 'probly,' you're performing haplology—removing one of the repeated syllables—and linguists call this 'haplologic reduction'!
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