haplology

Haplology is defined as the elimination of a syllable when two consecutive identical or similar syllables occur.

The word haplology itself is sometimes jokingly pronounced "haplogy".

Haplology: The loss of a syllable when an adjacent syllable is similar or (rarely) identical.

Linguists sometimes jokingly refer to the phenomenon as "haplogy" (subjecting the word "haplology" to haplology).

The prefix appears as t- before stems that start with /ʔ/, and it is omitted through haplology before stems that also start with /t/.

For example, analyse comes from French analyser, formed by haplology from the French analysiser, which would be spelled analysise or analysize in English.

Those that affect grammatical elements that merge to form words are vocalic contraction, vocalic assimilation, vocalic syncope, consonantic syncope, haplology, and patterns in stress.

I had always assumed it to be derived from the Old English Englaland ("the land of the Angles") with the loss of the duplicate syllable being an instance of haplology.

It is generally believed that reduplication was once a feature of all Proto-Indo-European perfects, but it was lost in most verbs by Proto-Germanic times due to haplology.

'Psychomodo' is like a haplology of 'psychic Quasimodo', and Steve does compare himself with Quasimodo, obviously using his being 'physically devastated' as a metaphor for his own state of mind.

In English r deletion above, when a syllable is unstressed, it may drop out altogether, as in "deteriate" for deteriorate, "tempature" for temperature, and "apeture" for aperture, a process called haplology.