#linguistic_process  a process involved in human language
  supertype:  human_process__humanproces  a process in which human beings are involved
  subtype:  agglutination.linguistic_process  the building of words from component morphemes that retain their form and meaning in the process of combining
     subtype:  isoagglutination  agglutination of an agglutinogen of one individual by a serum from another individual of the same species
  subtype:  assimilation.linguistic_process  a linguistic process by which a sound becomes similar to an adjacent sound
  subtype:  derivation.linguistic_process  (descriptive linguistics) the process whereby new words are formed from existing words or bases by affixation: `singer' from `sing'; `undo' from `do'
  subtype:  dissimilation  a linguistic process by which one of two similar sounds in a word becomes less like the other; "the Old French MARBRE became the English MARBLE by dissimilation"
  subtype:  drift.linguistic_process  a process of linguistic change over a period of time
  subtype:  fusion.linguistic_process  the merging of adjacent sounds or syllables or words
     subtype:  syncretism  the fusion of originally different inflected forms (resulting in a reduction in the use of inflections)
  subtype:  lexicalization__lexicalisation  the process of making a word to express a concept
  subtype:  metathesis  a linguistic process of transposition of sounds or syllables within a word or words within a sentence
  subtype:  omission.linguistic_process__deletion  any process whereby sounds are left out of spoken words or phrases
     subtype:  aphaeresis__apheresis__apheresi  (linguistics) omission at the beginning of a word as in `coon' for `raccoon' or `till' for `until'
     subtype:  aphesis__aphesi  the gradual disappearance of an initial (usually unstressed) vowel or syllable as in `squire' for `esquire'
     subtype:  elision  omission of a sound between two words (usually a vowel and the end of one word or the beginning of the next)
     subtype:  ellipsis__eclipsis  omission or suppression of parts of words or sentences
  subtype:  synaeresis__syneresis__syneresi  the contraction of two vowels into a diphthong

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