Phonological Analysis Flashcards
What is the phonological system?
What are the vowels and consonants
What are phonological assessments?
STAP, DEAP, EAT, CLEAR
What happens in phonological assessments?
Child names pictures and therapist transcribes
What are natural features?
Easier to articulate
What is markedness?
Phonetically more complex, less common across languages (th)
What is thought to be the most natural syllable shape?
CV
What are plosives more natural than?
Fricatives
What is more natural:
Voiced or voiceless?
Voiceless
What is the exception for voiceless over voiced?
Approximants
What is a phonological process?
“Processes convert a difficult aspect of phonology into something (the target sound) that is phonologically similar but less difficult or challenging to produce” (McLeod & Baker, 2017, my addition in brackets)
Are natural phonological processes learned?
No they are innate
What affects syllable structure?
Repetition, deletion, reduction etc
What happens in weak syllable deletion with multisyllabic words?
Unstressed syllable is deleted
3;6-4
What happens with reduplication?
Repetition of syllable( usually first) repeated in place of other syllables
2-2;6
What happens in Final consonant deletion?
Deletion of consonant in WF position. Consonant is deleted.
Disappears 3;3-3;6