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Dissimilation is a process that results in two sounds becoming less alike in articulatory or acoustic terms;

a process in which units which occur in some contexts are ‘lost’ in others; e.g. ‘libary’ instead of ‘library,’
‘ govenor’ for ‘governor’

Deletion is a process that removes a segment from certain phonetic contexts. It occurs in everyday rapid
speech; e.g. [blaɪn mæn] ‘blind man ’

Epenthesis is a process that inserts a syllable or a nonsyllabic segment within an existing string of
segment; e.g. [plæntɪd] ‘planted’

Metathesis is a process that reorders or reverses a sequence of segments; it occurs when two segments
in a series switch places, e.g. viloyet lurer; violet  aks; ruler ask

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