father-bother merger

名词 n.
中文释义
英 /ˌfɑːðə ˈbɒðə ˈmɜːdʒə/|/ˌfɑːðə ˈbɔðə ˈməːdʒə/    美 /ˌfɐːðə ˈbɔðə ˈmɜːdʒə/|/ˌfɑðɚ ˈbɑðɚ ˈmɝdʒɚ/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A phonemic merger in English of the vowels /ɑː/ (as in father) and /ɒ/ (as in bother).
    — The first is the father-bother merger, a loss of rounding contrast in the low back vowels by which the originally contrastive /ɒ/ has been subsumed by /ɑː/ into the fused phoneme /ɑ/.
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