名词解释题
37.apocope
【正确答案】Apocope refers to the phenomenon of the deletion of a word-final vowel segment．It is a kind of sound loss．For example，“name”and“love”were pronounced respectively as [na:ma:]and
in Old English，and
in Middle English，but as 
in Old English，andin Middle English，but as 【答案解析】