Charlie wrote:
> There is a phonetic phenomenon in Senjecan that occurs when the
> personal pronoun nominative + the present tense marker are prefixed to
> a verbnoun with an initial vowel.
>
> m-i-ât-a /mi'at_da/
> 1sg.-pres.-go-indic.
> I go.
>
> This becomes mïâta. m_j'at_da
>
> Is there a proper name for this phenomenon? It doesn't seem to me to
> be either lenition (as David Crystal defines it) or elision.
>
Vowel reduction...? (full vowel reduced > glide preceding stressed V
(perhaps in other envs. too?-- "in pre-tonic position" would cover other
cases too), fairly common IMO