In some languages, resyllabification is a phenomenon where consonants become attached to vowels in a
syllable different than the one from which they originally came. This can even occur across word boundaries, as happens in the ''enchaînment'' of contemporary
French-language
French ( or ) is a Romance language of the Indo-European family. It descended from the Vulgar Latin of the Roman Empire, as did all Romance languages. French evolved from Gallo-Romance, the Latin spoken in Gaul, and more specifically in No ...
phonology
Phonology is the branch of linguistics that studies how languages or dialects systematically organize their sounds or, for sign languages, their constituent parts of signs. The term can also refer specifically to the sound or sign system of a ...
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Phonotactics
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