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A phonemic merger in English of the vowels /ɑː/ (as in father) and /ɒ/ (as in bother).

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father-bother merger

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father-bother merger

IPA(Pronunciation)

/ˌfɑːðə ˈbɒðə ˈmɜːdʒə(ɹ)/

Noun

A phonemic merger in English of the vowels /ɑː/ (as in father) and /ɒ/ (as in bother).

Japanese Meaning

英語における音韻現象の一つで、/ɑː/（fatherにおける音）と/ɒ/（botherにおける音）の母音が統合され、同一の音として発音される現象

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Linguists debated whether the father-bother merger had become the norm among speakers in that region.

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言語学者たちは、その地域の話者の間で「father」と「bother」の母音合流が一般的になったかどうかを議論した。

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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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