Contextual form

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The term context form is a term from linguistics and describes changes in a word within a phrase, i.e. without a break in speech. The following changes can occur, often in combination with one another: shift in emphasis, changed intonation (speech melody), change in vowel length and vowel color. A word that is not in context is called pausal form .

Context forms are formed almost involuntarily in oral languages ​​and dialects and are often not perceived as such by the speakers. In the German vernacular is often called, for example, the word "professor" in a sentence as Professer , while the "o" vowel of the suffix at the end of a phrase, is therefore facing a period of silence, audible.

Context forms play e.g. B. in the description of some Chadian languages or the Semitic languages Arabic and Hebrew a role.