Progressive assimilation
Assimilation in which a preceding sound has an effect on a following one, as in shortening captain to cap'm rather than cap'n.
Progressive assimilation is also known as Preservative assimilation. The assimilation is said to be preservative when the features of a phoneme are modified by the features of the phoneme immediately before it. In other words, the conditioned sound is preceded by the assimilated sound. Such as simulation is dealt with from left to right.
Progressive assimilation involves the modification of a sound with reference to the preceding segments, thus the direction appears to be from left to right.
Progressive assimilation: the sound changes because of the influence of the preceding sound which the first phoneme influences the second phoneme or one phoneme influences another phoneme forward.
Progressive assimilation definition and meaning. Collins English Dictionary. (2024). In Collins Dictionaries. Retrieved from https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/progressive-assimilation
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