kontraksionin
Kontraksionin is a term used in linguistics to refer to the set of processes by which two or more linguistic segments combine into a shorter, single unit at or across word boundaries. The phenomenon includes vowel elision, consonant loss, cluster simplification, and cliticization, and it can occur in casual speech, dialectal varieties, and some standardized varieties of languages. Contractions such as don't (do not), I'm (I am), and it's (it is) illustrate kontraksionin in action.
In languages with suffixal definite articles or proclitics, contractions can involve the fusion of a word with
Mechanics: The contraction typically obeys phonotactic constraints and stress patterns. It often involves preserving the essential
Implications: Kontraksionin affects phonology, morphology, and syntax by altering prosody, timing, and the mapping between surface
See also: contraction, elision, clitic, phonology, morphology.