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n. - The articulatory process whereby the pronunciation of a word or morpheme changes when it is followed immediately by another (especially in fluent speech).

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  • The iti after vadi is really eti, the absence of sandhi in the proper form is Arsha.
  • Loka is in the locative case, the final vowel indicating to the locative having been dropped for sandhi.
  • As for χan, since it follows the word iχ a word found in Etruscan to mean 'thus', then the aspiration can be explained as a phonetic spelling hinting at sandhi.
  • To get Mandarin speech recognition to work, we had to learn a lot about this fascinating language — the differences between traditional and simplified Chinese, its tonal...
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