The process of assimilation, dissimilation and haplology

 "The process of assimilation, dissimilation and haplology"

Assimilation is a general term in phonetics for the process by which a speech sound becomes similar or identical to a neighboring sound. In the opposite process, dissimilation, sounds become less similar to one another. The term "assimilation" comes from the Latin meaning, "make similar to."

Is that assimilation is (phonology) a sound change process by which the phonetics of a speech segment becomes more like that of another segment in a word (or at a word boundary), so that a change of phoneme occurs while dissimilation is (phonology) a phenomenon whereby similar consonant or vowel sounds in a word become.

Assimilation is a sound change in which some phonemes (typically consonants or vowels) change to be more similar to other nearby sounds. It is a common type of phonological process across languages. Assimilation can occur either within a word or between words.

Examples of Assimilation

He argued that they actively try to make sense of the world, constantly forming new ideas and experimenting with those ideas. Examples of assimilation include: A child sees a new type of dog that they've never seen before and immediately points to the animal and says, "Dog!"