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Preocclusion Moderate

Origin: Latin suffix -sion

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Noun
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The (phonological process, seen for example in Manx, of) insertion of a short stop before a sonorant, such as a [d] before an [n] or [l] (resulting in the preoccluded consonants [ᵈn] and [ᵈl]).