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METATHESIS in ENGLISH | ||
| wasit journal for humanities | ||
| Article 1, Volume 0, Issue 0, 2014, Pages 23-38 | ||
| Author | ||
| Assit. Lect. Farah Abdul-Jabbar Mehdi Al-Menassir | ||
| Abstract | ||
| Abstract As we live, we witness and experience change: Our looks, our circumstances, thoughts and feelings are in constant flux. The same applies to words which have lives of their own and during the lifetime of a word, change appears to be the only constant. Words may change syntactically , semantically and phonologically. One type of words' change in language is when a word has two pronunciations resulting from the change of either contiguous or non-contiguous segments. This type of change is known as 'Metathesis'. The term refers to a language sound pattern in which a sequence of sounds appears in one order in one context but in opposite order in a related context. In other words, it is the process whereby under certain conditions, sounds appear to switch positions with one another. Thus, in a string of sounds where one | ||
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