"phonemic merger" meaning in English

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          "text": "The first sign of a phonemic merger is that two signs, which hitherto have been kept carefully apart, become used wrongly, e.g. das is written for MHG dar, and aller for MHG alles (Schulze 1967: 38f.).",
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        "(phonology) The phenomenon in which two different phonemes merge and become replaced by a single phoneme."
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            "feminine"
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          "word": "convergence"
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          "code": "hu",
          "lang": "Hungarian",
          "sense": "phenomenon in which two different phonemes merge",
          "word": "fonéma-összeolvadás"
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          "roman": "onso gōryū",
          "sense": "phenomenon in which two different phonemes merge",
          "word": "音素合流"
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          "sense": "phenomenon in which two different phonemes merge",
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          "word": "utożsamienie"
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