Metaplasm

<h2 id="sound-change">Sound change</h2>
<p>Many phonological changes found frequently in the natural development of languages are metaplasms:
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<ul><li><a href="/facts/Epenthesis/DEJE6nKS">Epenthesis</a>, addition of a sound to a word:
<ul><li>beginning of a word (<a href="/facts/Prothesis_(linguistics)/6noca7B8">prothesis</a>)</li>
<li>end (<a href="/facts/Paragoge/38cD3bQ2">paragoge</a>)</li></ul></li>
<li><a href="/facts/Synalepha/y4gLbwpQ">Synalepha</a>, two syllables becoming one, occurs by elision, crasis, synaeresis, or synizesis.
<ul><li><a href="/facts/Elision/wtgX5ywc">Elision</a> ("<a href="/facts/Contraction_(grammar)/NmpGfPrk">contraction</a>" in <a href="/facts/English_language/tpkxGt7b">English</a> grammar), removal of a sound:
<ul><li>beginning of a word (<a href="/facts/Apheresis_(linguistics)/t9qNG34x">apheresis</a>)</li>
<li>middle (<a href="/facts/Syncope_(phonetics)/tL4MKHht">syncope</a>)</li>
<li>end (<a href="/facts/Apocope/qVjb1Bye">apocope</a>).</li></ul></li>
<li><a href="/facts/Crasis/3URtagDS">Crasis</a> (Ancient Greek contraction), coalescence of two vowels into a new long vowel.</li>
<li><a href="/facts/Synaeresis/sIVlr5cz">Synaeresis</a>, pronunciation of two vowels as a diphthong. Opposite: <a href="/facts/Diaeresis_(prosody)/u9Kd10GB">diaeresis</a>, pronunciation of a diphthong as two syllabic vowels.</li>
<li><a href="/facts/Synizesis/ejjE0261">Synizesis</a>, pronunciation of two vowels that do not form a normal diphthong as one syllable, without change in writing. Opposite: <a href="/facts/Hiatus_(linguistics)/DInsUYDx">hiatus</a>, distinct pronunciation of two adjacent vowels.</li></ul></li>
<li><a href="/facts/Metathesis_(linguistics)/qPNPuQW1">Metathesis</a>, rearranging of sounds or features of sounds, may affect vowel lengths (<a href="/facts/Quantitative_metathesis/YXo9Yft3">quantitative metathesis</a>).</li></ul>
<h2 id="rhetoric">Rhetoric</h2>
<p>In <a href="/facts/Rhetoric/mB9np26l">rhetoric</a>, metaplasm is the modification of <a href="/facts/Word_order/nXtB9Gm2">word order</a> for emphasis.
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<h2 id="romance-languages">Romance languages</h2>
<p>In the grammar of the <a href="/facts/Romance_languages/TMK4KHI3">Romance languages</a>, <i>metaplasm</i> may refer to change in the <a href="/facts/Grammatical_gender/2hEshpnP">grammatical gender</a> of <a href="/facts/Noun/SsnDNfkX">nouns</a> from their original gender in Latin.
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<h2 id="see-also">See also</h2>
<ul><li><a href="/facts/Sound_change/NU6EyI1u">Sound change</a></li></ul>
<h2 id="notes">Notes</h2>

<h2 id="references">References</h2>

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<li id="fn:1"><p>From Greek μεταπλασμός, from μεταπλάσσειν "mold into a different shape." <a href="/wiki/Ancient_Greek" target="_blank">/wiki/Ancient_Greek</a> <a href="#fnref:1" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
<li id="fn:2"><p>Haraway, Donna. The Companion Species Manifesto. Chicago: Prickly Paradigm Press. p. 20. <a href="/wiki/Donna_Haraway" target="_blank">/wiki/Donna_Haraway</a> <a href="#fnref:2" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
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