Assimilation vs. Coarticulation — What's the Difference?

The process of taking in and fully understanding information or ideas

Coarticulation in its general sense refers to a situation in which a conceptually isolated speech sound is influenced by, and becomes more like, a preceding or following speech sound. There are two types of coarticulation: anticipatory coarticulation, when a feature or characteristic of a speech sound is anticipated (assumed) during the production of a preceding speech sound; and carryover or perseverative coarticulation, when the effects of a sound are seen during the production of sound(s) that follow.

The absorption and digestion of food or nutrients by the body or any biological system

(anatomy) The formation of a joint by the articulation of two bones.

The process of becoming similar to something

(linguistics) The action or process of coarticulating.

The act or process of assimilating.

The union or articulation of bones to form a joint.

The state of being assimilated.

(Physiology) The conversion of nutriments into living tissue; constructive metabolism.

(Linguistics) The process by which a sound is modified so that it becomes similar or identical to an adjacent or nearby sound. For example, the prefix in- becomes im- in impossible by assimilation to the labial p of possible.

The process whereby a minority group gradually adopts the customs and attitudes of the prevailing culture.

The act of assimilating or the state of being assimilated.

The metabolic conversion of nutrients into tissue.

(by extension) The absorption of new ideas into an existing cognitive structure.

(phonology) A sound change process by which the phonetics of a speech segment becomes more like that of another segment in a word (or at a word boundary), so that a change of phoneme occurs.

The adoption, by a minority group, of the customs and attitudes of the dominant culture.

The act or process of assimilating or bringing to a resemblance, likeness, or identity; also, the state of being so assimilated; as, the assimilation of one sound to another.

The conversion of nutriment into the fluid or solid substance of the body, by the processes of digestion and absorption, whether in plants or animals.

The state of being assimilated; people of different backgrounds come to see themselves as part of a larger national family

The social process of absorbing one cultural group into harmony with another

The process of absorbing nutrients into the body after digestion

A linguistic process by which a sound becomes similar to an adjacent sound

The process of assimilating new ideas into an existing cognitive structure

In the theories of Jean Piaget: the application of a general schema to a particular instance