wine-whine merger
名词 n.
英 /waɪnˈwaɪn ˌmɜːdʒə(ɹ)/
美 /wɑenˈwɑen ˌmɜːdʒə(ɹ)/|/waɪnˈʍaɪn ˌmɝdʒɚ/
英文释义
名词 n.
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A merger in which [ʍ] (the voiceless sound heard at the beginning of the word whine in a Scottish accent or several accents in the United States) becomes [w] (the sound heard at the beginning of the word wine); in accents where this merger occurs, whine and wine are homophones.
— As was the case with the wine–whine merger, date from the early twentieth century show that southeastern Pennsylvania was subject to patterns of variation in pronunciation.
词形变化
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