Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Modification of the sound of a word or morpheme when juxtaposed with another, especially in fluent speech, as the modification of the pronunciation of don't in don't you from its pronunciation in isolation or in a phrase like don't we.
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- noun linguistics A cover term for a wide variety of
phonological processes that occur atmorpheme orword boundaries, such as thefusion of sounds across word boundaries and thealteration of sounds due to neighboring sounds or due to the grammatical function of adjacent words.
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- noun the articulatory process whereby the pronunciation of a word or morpheme changes when it is followed immediately by another (especially in fluent speech)
Etymologies
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Examples
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To get Mandarin speech recognition to work, we had to learn a lot about this fascinating language — the differences between traditional and simplified Chinese, its tonal characteristics, automatic segmentation of text into words, pinyin representations of Chinese characters, sandhi rules, the different accents and languages in China, unicode representations of Chinese character sets...the list goes on and on.
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As for χan, since it follows the word iχ a word found in Etruscan to mean 'thus', then the aspiration can be explained as a phonetic spelling hinting at sandhi.
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The iti after vadi is really eti, the absence of sandhi in the proper form is Arsha.
The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 3 Books 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12 Kisari Mohan [Translator] Ganguli
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Loka is in the locative case, the final vowel indicating to the locative having been dropped for sandhi.
The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 3 Books 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12 Kisari Mohan [Translator] Ganguli
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Actually the current version automatically converts one type of tone sandhi: if you have a case like "bu4 yao4" (不要), the result will be "bu2 yao4".
madmouth commented on the word sandhi
hell of a lot better than 'assimilation'
June 16, 2009