Phonology

Question 1

What are the front consonants?

Answer 1

b p t d

Question 2

What are the back consonants?

Answer 2

k g

Question 3

start

Answer 3

initial

Question 4

end

Answer 4

final

Question 5

What is simplification

Answer 5

Consonant cluster reduced to one consonant

b p t d k g

Question 6

Which consonant clusters develop first?

Answer 6

Final, before initial

Question 7

What happens to unstressed syllables

Answer 7

tend to be deleted becomes /pen/

Question 8

Extra vowels get …. between consonant clusters

Answer 8

Added (addition)

/belu/

Question 9

What is assimilation

Answer 9

When some sounds change because of others around them

/goggy/

Question 10

What is devouring

Answer 10

Substitution of voices phonemes with voiceless phonemes

/Kup/

Question 11

Deletion

Answer 11

Omission of a consonant, most likely in the final position

Question 12

Substitution

Answer 12

Replace a phoneme with another that is easier to pronounce

/wegz/ instead of /legs/

Question 13

cluster reduction

Answer 13

Omits 2nd consonant in a cluster

Question 14

Cluster

Answer 14

GRass
PLug
SMock 
SCale
PRetzel
miLK
lauGH
souTH

Question 15

Addition

Answer 15

adding other phonemes to the end of the word

/dogu/

Question 16

Reduplication

Answer 16

Phoneme or syllable repeated

Question 17

Voicing

Answer 17

Some voiceless phonemes are voiced

becomes /zok/

Question 18

Devoicing

Answer 18

Voiced phonemes replaced with voiceless /paeg/

Question 19

/l/ (lateral) and /r/ (v approx) tend to be replaced by /w/ (vl approx) and /j/ (v approx)

why?

Answer 19

Children find these difficult to produce in the early stages. Pronunciation is not usually standardised until 2-3