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phonemic merger (plural phonemic mergers)

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

See also
phonemic split
w:phonemic differentiation|Wikipedia article on phonemic differentiation, which includes a section on phonemic mergers

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