Thrusday ppt 2

Question 1

Apheresis

Answer 1

ommission of sound from the beginning of a word

ex: ‘cept for except

‘cause for because

Question 2

Syncope

Answer 2

ommision of sound from within a word.

ex:

“bizness” for buisness

“govment” for government

Question 3

Apocope

Answer 3

Omission of sound from the end of a word

ex: gonna for going

Question 4

VOice Assimilation

Answer 4

making a sound more like the sounds surrounding it through voicing.

ex: budder for butter

mudder for mutter

Question 5

Place Assimilation

Answer 5

Chaning the place a sound is made

ex: grandma becomes gramma

Question 6

Dissimilation

Answer 6

Changing a sound to make it less like those around it.

Puntit for Pundit

Question 7

Gemination

Answer 7

Eliminating a difficult-to-pronounce sequence of sounds resulting from adding a prefix to a base by dropping the final consonant of the prefix and doubling the first letter of the base.

Question 8

Metathesis

Answer 8

reversalof sounds within a word

prettybecome purty

Question 9

Epenthesis

Answer 9

addition of sound within a word

athlete becomes athelete

Question 10

Epithesis

Answer 10

addition of sound at the end of a word

across becomes acrosst

Question 11

Gradation

Answer 11

a chenge in sound resulting form a shift in stress