The difference between Merger and Phonemic merger

When used as nouns, merger means the act or process of merging two or more parts into a single unit, whereas phonemic merger means the phenomenon in which two different phonemes merge and become replaced by a single phoneme.


check bellow for the other definitions of Merger and Phonemic merger

  1. Merger as a noun:

    The act or process of merging two or more parts into a single unit.

    Examples:

    "Club mergers reduced the number of teams by half"

  2. Merger as a noun (economics):

    The legal union of two or more corporations into a single entity, typically assets and liabilities being assumed by the buying party.

  3. Merger as a noun (legal):

    An absorption of one or more estate(s) or contract(s) into one other, all being held by the same owner; of several counts of accusation into one judgement, etc.

  4. Merger as a noun (phonology):

    A type of sound change where two or more sounds merge into one.

    Examples:

    "the [[cot-caught merger]]"

  1. Phonemic merger as a noun (phonology):

    The phenomenon in which two different phonemes merge and become replaced by a single phoneme.

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