Tier conflation

Definition
Tier Conflation is a process by which multilinear representations are linearized. For the Arabic form katab 'write-perfect active' this entails the following change:

a / \    C V C V C	 TC	C V C V	  C     |   |   |           | | | |   | k  t   b		k a t a	  b

Links

 * Utrecht Lexicon of Linguistics