Linking vs Liaison - What's the difference?
linking | liaison |
Present participle of link.
:The yard manager is linking the sections of the train together.
Serving to connect other things together.
:Conjunctions frequently function as linking words in a sentence.
linkage
* 1986 , Douglas Pulleyblank, Tone in Lexical Phonology (page 11)
Communication between two parties or groups.
Co-operation, working together.
A relayer of information between two forces in an army or during war.
A tryst, romantic meeting.
(figuratively) An illicit sexual relationship or affair.
(linguistics) The phonological fusion of two consecutive words and the manner in which this occurs, for example intrusion, consonant-vowel linking, etc. In the context of some languages, such as French, liaison can refer specifically to a normally silent final consonant, being pronounced when the next word begins with a vowel, and can often also include the intrusion of a "t" in certain fixed chunks of language such as the question form "pense-t-il ".
As nouns the difference between linking and liaison
is that linking is linkage while liaison is .As a verb linking
is present participle of link.As an adjective linking
is serving to connect other things together.linking
English
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(head)Adjective
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(en noun)- I will assume that multiple linkings of tones to a single tone-bearing unit come about only by language-specific rules.