| 单词 | hiatus-filling |
| 释义 | > as lemmashiatus-filling 3. Grammar and Prosody. The break between two vowels coming together without an intervening consonant in successive words or syllables. Also attributive and in other combinations, as hiatus-consonant, hiatus-filler, hiatus-glide; hiatus-filling adj.The break or interval of silence is necessary in order that the two vowels may be separately heard, when there is no intervening consonant to mark the division between them. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > linguistics > study of speech sound > speech sound > vowel > [noun] > break between two vowels hiatus1706 society > leisure > the arts > literature > poetry > versification > rhythm > [noun] > hiatus hiatus1706 1706 A. Pope Corr. 22 Oct. (1956) I. 24 The Hiatus which has the worst effect, is, when one word ends with the same Vowel that begins the following. 1875 J. R. Lowell Spenser in Literary Ess. (1890) IV. 309 (note) He [Milton] also shuns a hiatus which does not seem to have been generally displeasing to Spenser's ear. a1898 Mod. The article an has been reduced to a, except before vowels, where hiatus would result. 1945 Mod. Lang. Notes Dec. 550 The spelling donmore for Dunmowe may indicate the development of a hiatus-filling r in sandhi. 1948 D. Diringer Alphabet ii. vi. 350 The letters..were also used as ‘hiatus-consonants’. 1953 K. Jackson Lang. & Hist. in Early Brit. 278 The hiatus-glide with native e was..i̯. 1953 K. Jackson Lang. & Hist. in Early Brit. 367 The hiatus-filler here is u̯ rather than i̯. 1968 Language 44 454 The general outlines of this ‘hiatus diphthongization’ have been known for more than three-quarters of a century. < as lemmas |
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