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excrescence
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excrescence /ex·cres·cence/ (eks-kres´ins) an abnormal outgrowth; a projection of morbid origin.excres´cent
ex·cres·cence (k-skrsns)
n.
An outgrowth from a surface that may be normal, such as a fingernail, or abnormal, such as a wart.

excrescence [ek-skres´ens]
an abnormal outgrowth; a projection related to a disease or pathologic condition. adj., adj excres´cent.

excrescence
an abnormal outgrowth; a projection of morbid origin.


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Thus Hogg refers to Luick when discussing palatalisation (260-261,263,275), assibilation (272), assibilation of [sc] (271), fricative voicing (283-284), development of velars (289), gemination (294), consonant loss (297), epenthesis (298), assimilation (300-301), and consonant shifts (306).
Among their topics are phonetically-driven epenthesis asymmetries in French and Spanish obstruent-liquid clusters, Romanian diphthongs as a case of complex nuclei in articulatory phonology, and perseverative phonetic effects in bilingual code-switching.
Posti actually speaks about velarization of g and epenthesis of u; it is reflected also in his and L.
 
 
 
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