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
{i} act or state of being incorporated into; absorption into the cultural tradition of another group (esp. a minority group into the predominant culture); process by which nourishment is absorbed into the body and converted (i.e. into tissue or energy, etc.); linguistic process in which one sound changes to be like an adjoining sound
the state of being assimilated; people of different backgrounds come to see themselves as part of a larger national family
Anabolism or constructive metabolism; the process of taking in and converting nutrient substances into components of living tissues; the conversion of non-living matter into protoplasm