Metalanguage - Connected speech processes Flashcards

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Connected Speech Processes

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Assimilation
(Vowel) Reduction
Insertion
Elision/Omission
Substitution

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Elision/Omission

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Deleting or removing a sound (vowel, constatant, syllable) on connected speech
Because -> Coz

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Assimilation

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Sound changes to become more like a neighbouring sound
Don’t know -> Dunno

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Reduction (need to specify if vowel reduction)

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Unstressed vowel reduced to a schwa /ə/
Water -> Wata

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Insertion

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Adding in a sound
Film -> Filum

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Substitution

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Swapping a sound for a different one
Swimming -> Swimmin
Footy -> Foody (flapping)

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