Processes Flashcards
What happens during palatalization
Consonant’s place/manner of articulation changes when its next to high/front vowel or the palatal glide.
What is the strongest trigger of palatalization cross-linguistically
[i]
What is the output when there is a [i]
Output is pronounced closer to alveopalatal region. It often becomes fricative or affricate. (assimilation
What happens with Quebec French palatalization
Before a i, phoneme /t/ turns into affricate ?dental? [t͡s], like in petit.
What is deletion. What’s the other name. What is the rule
Complete removal of underlying segment. Elision. vowel -> ∅/ _vowel.
What is epenthesis. Why does it happen.
Insertion of a new segment. Its use to break up illicit cluster segment
What is an example of epenthesis
Hawaiian doesnt allow adjacent consonants so.. ∅ -> [i]/ C_C
What do we need to do when we do an input to epenthesis.
Put a specific segment and not a natural class.
When two different phonemes share the same allophone, what happens?
Neutralization. There’s a loss of underlying contrast between 2 phonemes.
What is English plural neutralization
Sometimes plurals are pronounced as voiceless alveolar fricative /s/ and sometimes voiced alveolar fricative /z/
What is the rule with English plural.
obstruent -> voiceless/ voiceless_
DEVOICING
Cats - dogz
What is known as consonant weakening?
Lenition
What happens during lenition?
Output has less obstruction, shorter obstruction, more voicing, more sonorous airflow. It’s a type of assimilation.
What happens when consonants are next to sonorants? V_V
Consonants lenite.
What is germinate
long consonant C:
