中国大学MOOC: The process of coarticulation in which the first sound get influenced by the second is called ______ coarticulation.

中国大学MOOC: In coarticulation, if the sound becomes more like the following sound, as inlamb, it is known as.

______ is a process by which one sound takes on some or all the characteristics of a neighboring sound, a term often used synonymously with coarticulation. If a following sound is influencing a preceding sound, it is called regressive assimilation; the converse process, in which a preceding sound is influencing a following sound, is known as progressive assimilation.