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  Dissimilation Beschreibung in Library - Definition und Buch-Tipp.
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den Abbau der durch Assimilation oder Nahrungsaufnahme aufgebauten Energiespeicher, siehe Dissimilation (Biologie).
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dissimilation.know-library.net   (666 words)

  
  § 66. dissimilation. 7. Pronunciation Challenges. The American Heritage Book of English Usage. 1996
Dissimilation is a phonological process that involves one of two similar or identical sounds within a word becoming less like the other or even disappearing entirely.
One historical example of dissimilation is marble, from French marbre.
In this case the second r has dissimilated to l in order to prevent a repetition of the r and ease articulation.
www.bartleby.com /64/C007/066.html   (218 words)

  
  Encyclopedia: Dissimilation   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Dissimilation, in the context of phonology, is a phenomenon whereby similar consonant sounds in a word have a tendency to become different over time, so as to ease pronunciation.
Dissimilation is a phonological process that involves one of two similar or identical sounds within a word becoming less like the other or even disappearing entirely.
Cases of assimilation and dissimilation, for example, are often plainly recourses taken by speakers for the sake of ease of pronunciation, the line of least resistence.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Dissimilation   (311 words)

  
 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
With regard to the dissimilation pattern in Greek then, we hypothesize that listeners will be always better at discriminating between clusters that have as one of their members the sibilant /s/ than between clusters that do not.
Conclusion In this paper, the process of manner dissimilation in Greek was investigated, and empirical results from a perception experiment were presented in support of the thesis that perceptual considerations, in addition to other factors, can influence the phonology of a language.
Dissimilation can be used as a diagnostic process for understanding the limits and mechanics of the role of perception in phonology.
www.ling.ohio-state.edu /~gdanelis/osuwp55.doc   (3566 words)

  
 5 Phonetic Changes
Dissimilation is a process by which, due to its awkward repetition, a sound is lost or changed in one of its occurrences.
By dissimilation, one sound may be substituted for another: /r/ for /l/, as in pilgrim, derived ultimately from Latin peregrinum; also turtle, from Latin turtre.
Dissimilation affects fewer sounds than assimilation and its most usual direction, as that of assimilation, is regressive; that is, the first occurrence of the sound in the word is more likely to be dissimilated than the other.
www.sapiens.ya.com /jrtrans/6PhonChanges.htm   (1092 words)

  
 LINGUIST List 3.584: Dissimilation, assimilation
Citing Donegan (1978) and Jesperson, Stampe suggests that dissimilation occurs between non-adjacent sounds when the intervening sound is likely to assimilate to the flanking identical sounds.
Stampe says, > If "distant" dissimilations of consonants protect the sounds they > flank from complete assimilation, we wouldn't expect dissimilation > either (1) if the flanked sounds are so many or so different from the > flanking consonants as to resist assimilation, or (2) if there are no > flanked sounds.
Under his proposed account of dissimilation as a means of blocking assimilation, Stampe argues that > > (2) we would NEVER expect dissimilation in mellis (*melris), where > there is no flanked sound to protect from assimilation.
www.ling.ed.ac.uk /linguist/issues/3/3-584.html   (815 words)

  
 Peter Suber, "The Reflexivity of Change"
The second /r/ dissimilated into /l/ to prevent repetition; the second /m/ was dropped by dissimilation for the same reason, and replaced by a dissimilated /b/.
Cases of assimilation and dissimilation, for example, are often plainly recourses taken by speakers for the sake of ease of pronunciation, the line of least resistence.
Because both assimilation and dissimilation require some appeal to the 'line of least resistance' theory, we are better off modifying that theory than rejecting it.
www.earlham.edu /~peters/writing/freiburg.htm   (12140 words)

  
 Sulfidogenesis from sulfonates: Anaerobic sulfonate dissimilation by sulfate-reducing bacteria and Desulfitobacterium ...
Sulfidogenesis from sulfonates: Anaerobic sulfonate dissimilation by sulfate-reducing bacteria and Desulfitobacterium spp.
During taurine fermentation, this bacterium accumulated polyhydroxybutyrate (PHB) in quantities significantly higher than that during growth with malate + sulfate as electron donor and TEA respectively, suggesting that some of taurine's carbon was used in PHB synthesis.
This studies conducted here reveal an increasing number of bacterial genera able to dissimilate sulfonates under strictly anaerobic conditions for growth.
digitalcommons.uconn.edu /dissertations/AAI9918083   (408 words)

  
 Definition of dissimilation - Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary
Learn more about "dissimilation" and related topics at Britannica.com
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See a map of "dissimilation" in the Visual Thesaurus
www.m-w.com /cgi-bin/dictionary?book=Dictionary&va=dissimilation   (42 words)

  
 VIEW ROA 175
In this paper, the problem of correctly correlating phonological activity and markedness is handled with the following proposal: dissimilation results from the force of markedness constraints, self-conjoined in a local context.
First, the proposal straightforwardly generalizes to cases of dissimilation which are not represented in autosegmental phonology.
Second, dissimilation as local conjunction provides a natural account of the inactivity of coronals in Place cooccurrence restrictions: the analysis stems from the equation, marked segments = active segments; because coronals are unmarked relative to a harmony scale, they are inactive in dissimilation.
roa.rutgers.edu /view.php3?id=515   (344 words)

  
 McGraw-Hill AccessScience: Carbohydrate metabolism
The breakdown or dissimilation of simple sugars, particularly glucose, is one of the principal sources of energy for living organisms.
The dissimilation may be anaerobic, as in fermentations, or aerobic, that is, respiratory.
In both types of metabolism, the breakdown is accompanied by the formation of energy-rich bonds, chiefly the pyrophosphate bond of the coenzyme adenosinetriphosphate (ATP), which serves as a coupling agent between different metabolic processes.
www.accessscience.com /Encyclopedia/1/10/Est_108000_frameset.html   (274 words)

  
 The Mavens' Word of the Day
The basis of our word colonel, the main sense of which is 'a relatively high-ranking officer in various armed forces', is in the Italian word colonnello, the masculine diminutive of colonna 'a column (of soldiers)', in reference to the fact that the officer originally headed the first column of a regiment.
Dissimilation is when a speech sound is altered so that it is different from a nearby speech sound; examples of r to l dissimilation are purple, eventually from Latin purpura, and marble, from Old French marbre.
Colonel demonstrates l to r dissimilation, common in the Romance languages: the first l was changed, and the resulting word was pronounced with an r and spelled coronel.
www.randomhouse.com /wotd/index.pperl?date=19970617   (305 words)

  
 Medmicro Chapter 4
The study of bacterial metabolism focuses on the chemical diversity of substrate oxidations and dissimilation reactions (reactions by which substrate molecules are broken down), which normally function in bacteria to generate energy.
Also within the scope of bacterial metabolism is the study of the uptake and utilization of the inorganic or organic compounds required for growth and maintenance of a cellular steady state (assimilation reactions).
This organism dissimilates glucose to ethanol and represents a major alcoholic fermentation reaction in a bacterium.
gsbs.utmb.edu /microbook/ch004.htm   (5805 words)

  
 Enzymes and genes of taurine and isethionate dissimilation in Paracoccus denitrificans -- Brüggemann et al. 150 ...
Enzymes and genes of taurine and isethionate dissimilation in Paracoccus denitrificans -- Brüggemann et al.
Enzymes and genes of taurine and isethionate dissimilation in Paracoccus denitrificans
encoding the inducible dissimilation of taurine, and this deduced
mic.sgmjournals.org /cgi/content/abstract/150/4/805   (635 words)

  
 Language Change - Title
The notes are not complete in that I have yet to put in the links, and there are other details that will change in the final version I hope to have available for you by tonight (12/2/97).
Dissimilation involves a change in one of two 'same' sounds that are adjacent or almost adjacent in a particular word such that they are no longer the same.
Haplology is similar to dissimilation, because it involves getting rid of similar neighboring sounds, but this time, one sound is simply dropped out rather than being changed to a different sound.
www.ling.upenn.edu /courses/Fall_1997/ling001/Langchange.htm   (2565 words)

  
 DISSIMILATION OF GLUCOSE AND GLUCONIC ACID BY PSEUDOMONAS NATRIEGENS -- Eagon and Wang 83 (4): 879 -- The Journal of ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
DISSIMILATION OF GLUCOSE AND GLUCONIC ACID BY PSEUDOMONAS NATRIEGENS -- Eagon and Wang 83 (4): 879 -- The Journal of Bacteriology
C. Dissimilation of glucose and gluconic acid by Pseudomonas natriegens.
is practically the exclusive catabolic pathway for glucose dissimilation.
jb.asm.org /cgi/content/abstract/83/4/879   (281 words)

  
 Short Model Description
Decomposition of fresh organic materials results in dissimilation of organic carbon, solubilization and transformation to the humus/biomass pool.
Decomposition of dissolved organic compounds results in dissimilation and transformation to the humus/biomass pool.
Since the nitrogen and the organic phosphorus behaviour in soil is closely related to the organic matter transformations, organic-N and organic-P processes are described analogous to the carbon cycle.
www.euroharp.org /pd/pd/models/Animo-short.htm   (676 words)

  
 Low Vowel Dissimilation in Vanuatu Languages - Questia Online Library
Of greater interest, however, is the fact that there seem to be almost thirty languages that evidence historical dissimilation, of which fourteen are spoken on the island of Malakula or on small islands offshore.
By irregular I mean that, in most "dissimilating languages" a significant number of forms that continue reconstructed etyma containing an *aCa sequence show dissimilation of the first *a, but a number of other forms do not.
In addition to the basic similarity of the dissimilation environment, there are other commonalities shared by all or most Vanuatu languages that show fairly thoroughgoing dissimilation.
www.questia.com /PM.qst?a=o&d=5002068336   (873 words)

  
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If "distant" dissimilations of consonants protect the sounds they flank from complete assimilation, we wouldn't expect dissimilation either (1) if the flanked sounds are so many or so different from the flanking consonants as to resist assimilation, or (2) if there are no flanked sounds.
Therefore, (1) we would expect l...l dissimilation to be most needed where a single vowel would be flanked by l's (polaris) or maybe even a sequence of vowels (familiaris) or a sequence of vowels and consonants similar to the flanking l's, e.g.
Since liquid dissimilation was furthermore restricted for the most part to words where the two liquids were in adjacent syllables, we must agree with Browne that the Georgian rule (which is also restricted to one suffix) appears to be better (but, we still haven't checked the facts).
www.umich.edu /~archive/linguistics/linguist.list/volume.3/no.551-600   (14864 words)

  
 Spartanburg SC | GoUpstate.com | Spartanburg Herald-Journal   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
The great majority of dissimillations involve segments that are not contiguous, but as with assimilations, the great majority involve an earlier sound changing with reference to a later one.
Dissimilation is usually a sporadic phenomenon, but Grassmann's Law (Sanskrit and Greek) is an example of a systematic dissimilation.
If the change of a sequence of fricatives such that one becomes a stop is dissimilation, then such changes as Proto-Germanic *χs to /ks/ (spelled x) in English would count as a regular sound law: PGmc.
www.goupstate.com /apps/pbcs.dll/section?category=NEWS&template=wiki&text=Sound_law   (1545 words)

  
 Linguist List - Dissertation Abstracts
After a description of proband idiosycrasies, of speech-error categories, and sound-frequency-weighted data (for nominal data analysis), consonant dissimilations are discussed in terms of speech gestures, of tongue-twister characteristics, diadochokinesis, and speech tempo.
There is agreement on language-change data but there are also causalities demanding further resaerch: Regressive dissimilation is a function of colliding intention while progressive dissimilation stems from muscle-innervation collision during the speech sound preparation period (p.
The process of dissimilation is unavoidable in human speech to utter all different speech sounds of a language system, given the relatively small number of (universal!) articulatory gestures available and thus repeating themselves over a short period of time.
www.linguistlist.org /pubs/diss/browse-diss-action.cfm?DissID=6672   (250 words)

  
 Amazon.com: dissimilation   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Syntactic dissimilation by Sandra Scharff Babcock (Unknown Binding - 1967)
diseminada, CID dissemination diseminacin, dispersin dissimilation catabolismo, disimilacin dissociated verbal amnesia...
might be put down to dissimilation from v in the preceding...
www.amazon.com /s?ie=UTF8&keywords=dissimilation&tag=lexico&index=blended&link_code=qs&page=1   (905 words)

  
 Welcome to Gonzalez Research Group!
coli strains devoid of enzymes responsible for the dissimilation of pyruvate during anaerobic fermentation of sugars.
It gives, upon dissimilation, acetyl CoA, which is also an important biosynthetic precursor metabolite.
There is one more enzyme involved in the dissimilation of pyruvate; pyruvate oxidase (PoxB), a product of gene poxB.
www.ruf.rice.edu /~metabol/murarka.html   (374 words)

  
 Dissimilation Information
The suffix -alis also switched to -aris when the root word contained an /l/.
What is written "chs" and pronounced [ks] in modern German was originally a sequence of two fricatives (/xs/) that dissimilated.
View a list of authors or edit this article.
www.bookrags.com /Dissimilation   (148 words)

  
 LISTSERV 14.4
I missed the discussion of dissimilation recently on Linguist, while I was at the Australian Linguistics Institute in Sydney.
In Sydney I presented the data from my 1988 paper on Nasal Cluster Dissimilation (details were posted in the summary which I missed, I believe).
Given the marginal nature of dissimilation in phonological theory it would seem wise to reduce the number of cases that fall under this rubric, and explain them if possible in other terms.
listserv.linguistlist.org /cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind9208b&L=linguist&D=1&F=&S=&P=350   (443 words)

  
 Cloning and Genetic Characterization of dca Genes Required for {beta}-Oxidation of Straight-Chain Dicarboxylic Acids in ...
Above the layout of genetic sections, delineated by the gray lines, are the outlines of pathways for dissimilation of aromatic and hydroaromatic compounds.
Dissimilation of even- and odd-chain dicarboxylic acids is postulated to diverge at the shorter thioesters: even-numbered
The dissimilation of higher dicarboxylic acids by Pseudomonas fluorescens.
aem.asm.org /cgi/content/full/67/10/4817   (5832 words)

  
 YSBL People - Academic staff
Structural analysus of carbohydrate active enzymes involved in the dissimilation of plant material.
Another interesting area of our work involves the structural analysis of carbohydrate active enzymes involved in the dissimilation of plant material.
Plant polysaccharides are complex in nature and are made of many different sugars with many different linkages that form an interlocking mesh.
www.ysbl.york.ac.uk /people/etaylor.htm   (541 words)

  
 CEPR Discussion Paper Abstracts
Even after controlling for covariate effects, the time trends in the educational attainment of natives and second generation immigrants deviate.
This evidence for ‘dissimilation’ calls for responses by educational policy and further research attention.
An additional outcome of the study is that the analysis of immigrant educational attainment ought to distinguish first and second generation immigrants as these groups differ in statistically significant ways.
www.cepr.org /pubs/new-dps/dplist.asp?dpno=2903   (255 words)

  
 February - Definitions from Dictionary.com
/y/[y], is the result of dissimilation, the tendency of like sounds to become unlike when they follow each other closely.
Although sometimes criticized, this dissimilated pronunciation of February is used by educated speakers and is considered standard.
The loss of the first r in this pronunciation can be accounted for by the phonological process known as dissimilation, by which similar sounds in a word tend to become less similar.
dictionary.reference.com /search?q=February   (339 words)

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