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