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Sound Substitution

• Definition: A process whereby sounds that already exist in a language are used to replace sounds that do not exist in the language when borrowing or when a speaker is trying to pronounce a foreign word.

  Source: Language Files, eleventh edition, edited by Vedrana Mihalicek and Christin Wilson