English Dictionary

pin-pen merger

名詞

(phonology) A phonemic merger where the vowels in "pin" and "pen" are pronounced the same before /n/ and /m/, making "pin" and "pen" homonyms.

日本語の意味

（音韻論）/n/および/m/の前において、'pin'と'pen'の母音が同じ発音となり、両単語が同音異義語となる現象（音韻統合現象）

The linguist recorded several speakers exhibiting the pin-pen merger in their rural dialects.

言語学者は地方の方言で、/n/の前で語の母音が同じに発音される現象であるピン・ペン合流を示す話者を何人か記録した。

意味（1）

(phonology) A phonemic merger where the vowels in "pin" and "pen" are pronounced the same before /n/ and /m/, making "pin" and "pen" homonyms.

Before we get to those, however, let us consider how we might discover a vowel merger taking place (and most work in this area has been on vowel merger or on conditioned vowel mergers, such as the pin–pen merger in the US south or the pool–pull merger in Utah, discussed below).