1) Linguistic process 2) Poetic device 3) Syneresis 4) Synizesis
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1) Syneresis
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- the contraction of two vowels into a diphthong
- the separation of liquid from a gel that is caused by contraction (as in cheese making)
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In linguistics, synaeresis (also spelled syneresis) is a phonological process of sound change in which two adjacent vowels within a word are combined into a single syllable. The opposite process, in which two adjacent vowels are pronounced separately, is known as diaeresis. For any given word, speakers generally hold a traditional view about the s...
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running together of vowels into a diphthong
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the contraction of two syllables into one, for metrical purposes, by changing two adjacent syllables into a diphthong. Paul Fussell gives as an example the first line of John Milton's Paradise Lost, 'Of man's first disobedience, and the fruit,' in which 'the ie in disobedience changes to what is called a y-glide, and the word becomes disobed-yence'...
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• (n.) Alt. of Syneresis
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When two vowels appear side-by-side within a single word, and the poet blurs them together into a si
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the contraction of two syllables or two vowels into one, esp. the contraction of two vowels so as to form a diphthong. · synizesis.
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