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The phenomenon in which a single phoneme diverges into two different phonemes.
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Then-thyn split — The thyn was a phonemic split of the Old English phoneme /θ/ into two phonemes /ð/ and /θ/ occurring in Early Middle English which resulted in thyn starting with different initial consonant, /ð/ and /θ/.In Old English, the phoneme /θ/ had two… … Wikipedia
bad-lad split — noun a phonemic split of the phoneme /æ/ into a short /æ/ and a long /æː/, as heard in some varieties of British and Australian English, in which bad is pronounced /bæːd/ and lad is pronounced /læd/ … Wiktionary
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