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Affection, in the linguistics of the Celtic languages, is the change in the quality of a vowel under the influence of the vowel of the following final syllable. It is a type of assimilation, or, more specifically, anticipatory assimilation at a distance.

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anticipatory metaphony in Celtic languages: e.g. Welsh gair → geiriadur

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