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- Practice the English pronunciation of chain shift with real speech in context.
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- (linguistics, phonology) A phonological modification of a vowel system or sometimes consonant system in which a change in a particular vowel or consonant causes other adjacent vowels or consonants to also change in order to avoid phonemic mergers.
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Meaning
- [Noun]
- (linguistics, phonology) A phonological modification of a vowel system or sometimes consonant system in which a change in a particular vowel or consonant causes other adjacent vowels or consonants to also change in order to avoid phonemic mergers.
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