Summary of important phonological process in English
12 Nasalization
- Spirantization
- Palatalization
- Metathesis
- Denasalization
7 Degemination
10 Devoicing
- Consonant harmony
- Haplology
6 Germination
3 Insertion
- Neutralization
- Assimilation
- Vowel reduction
2 Elision
- Voicing assimilation
Sounds becoming more like. These can be voicing manner or place.
It is the omission of a segment.
Syncope
Acope
Apharesis
Inserting segment into a word
A contrast that usually exits in a language is not realized in certain phonological environments as in this case before /r/
As the elimination of a syllable when two consecutive identical or similar syllable occur.
A segment, vowel or consonant, becomes double long like the /s/ in the phrase Miss Sandy.
Two similar neighbouring consonants are reduced to one single consonant, as in "immature".
One consonant becomes more like another.
Removing the feature "nasal" from a segment leaves you with a voiced stop at the same lace of articulation.
A voiced segment becomes voiceless. Usully nothing else change as in "vote -fote"
It is responsible for the most common types of speech errors, such as children acquiring spaghetti as pasghetti.
Is the production of a sound while the velum is lowered, so that some air escapes through the nose during the production of the sound by the mounth.
A sound, usually before a /j/ glide but often before a high front vowel, is moved vloser to the palat.
Stops become fricatives, usually between vowels.
Segment becomes like another usually adjacent segment, in voicing
Vowels in unstreeed syllables become shwa or similar short lax vowel.
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