linguistic process whereby weak phonemes disappear from words
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In phonology, syncope (/ˈsɪŋkəpi/; from Ancient Greek: συγκοπή, romanized: sunkopḗ, lit. 'cutting up') is the loss of one or more sounds from the interior of a word, especially the loss of an unstressed vowel. It is found in both synchronic and diachronic analyses of languages. Its opposite, whereby sounds are added, is epenthesis.
Synchronic analysis
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Discovered by embedding cosine similarity (sentence-transformers MiniLM, 384-dim).