metathesis

Examples

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• Alternatively, though, metathesis back to -onja could have led to palatalization.

  Academic text (1993)

• In the word "comfortable," metathesis can lead to its mispronunciation as "comfterble."

• Many studies have accepted, either implicitly or explicitly, that metathesis is by nature a sudden sound change.

  Academic text (2002)

• Accidental transposition, or metathesis, within a Hebrew word is not uncommon.

  Academic text (1992)

• The real problem is to explain why there was metathesis rather than some other method of handling the stem-final glide.

  Academic text (2002)

• On the other hand, regularity is much more problematic for abrupt metathesis.

  Academic text (2002)

• Nevertheless, actual palatalization would not have occurred unless metathesis also occurred, i.e., in p n j > n.

  Academic text (1993)

• In this article, I have applied our current knowledge of diachronic metathesis in order to achieve a clearer understanding of labial + /j/ metathesis in Hispano-Romance.

  Academic text (2002)

• Metathesis occurs when a speaker inadvertently switches sounds in a word, such as saying metathesis instead of "ask."

• Children often demonstrate metathesis when they say "aminal" instead of "animal."

Synonyms

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transposition

vsmetathesis

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Changing the order or position of things, for example swapping letters

is a language process that swaps sounds or syllables inside words

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology