A Dictionary of Phonetics and Phonology
n. [French: ‘chaining’] 1. See chain shift. 2. In French, the phenomenon in which a word-final consonant which is always pronounced is, when preceding a word-initial vowel, pronounced as part of the first syllable of the following word: hence par [paR] ‘by’ but par accident [pa.Rak.si.dã] ‘by accident’. Cf. liaison.
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