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In linguistics, linking is an external sandhi phenomenon that consists in resyllabing the final consonant sound of a word with the initial vowel sound of the word that follows it. Unlike binding, which results in the insertion of an additional consonant phoneme at the beginning of a syllable, the sequence has no impact at the segmental level but is limited to modifying the syllabic division: the consonant concerned is a consonant who would pronounce in all cases, that is to say even if there was no concatenation.

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