Phonological Processes

Question 1

phonetic analysis

Answer 1

analysis of articulatory acoustic and perceptual attributes of speech sounds

Question 2

phonological analysis

Answer 2

list of phonemes of language
classification system for categorizing phonemes
analysis of position
list of allophonic variations

Question 3

stridents

Answer 3

directed airflow against a surface
f, v, s, z, sh, zh, ch, j

Question 4

sibilants

Answer 4

subset of stridents, hissing and hushing sounds
s, z, sh, ch, zh, j

Question 5

pressure consonants

Answer 5

require significant air pressure to produce stops/plosives, fricatives, affricates

Question 6

deletion/omission

Answer 6

omission of sound

Question 7

substitution

Answer 7

replacement of one sound for another

Question 8

distortion

Answer 8

abnormal vocal tract production of sound not typical of another phoneme

Question 9

most commonly impacted phonemes

Answer 9

stridents, velar stops and liquids

Question 10

devoicing

Answer 10

loss of voice
t/d

Question 11

voicing

Answer 11

adding voice to unvoiced sound
d/t

Question 12

velar fronting

Answer 12

replacement of k or g with t or d

Question 13

palatal fronting

Answer 13

replacement of palatal with alveolar

Question 14

backing

Answer 14

alveolar to velar
palatal

Question 15

cluster reduction

Answer 15

simplification of blend/cluster
p/pl
k/kl
s/str

Question 16

deaffrication

Answer 16

loss of the strident in an affricate

Question 17

affrication

Answer 17

addition of a strident to stop producing an affricate

Question 18

depalatalization

Answer 18

usually forward shift from palate, impacts only palatal sounds

Question 19

palatalization

Answer 19

backward shift to a palatal sound

Question 20

affricates

Answer 20

dʒ, ʧ

Question 21

palatal

Answer 21

j, ʃ, ʒ

Question 22

gliding

Answer 22

l, r replaced by j or w

Question 23

stopping

Answer 23

fricative is stopped
t/s