Linguistics Exam 2 UNH ENG 402

allophones

one set of possible spoken sounds
assimilation

sounds become more like neighboring sounds
dissimilation

sounds become less like neighboring sounds - fifth to fift
insertion

sound inserted in word nuclear to nucular
deletion

a phoneme disappears for easier pronunciation
metathesis

re-ordering of phonemes ask becomes aks, common in childrens speech
chain shifts
- change in pronunciation (vowel musical chairs) works clockwise
- Great vowel shift - Middle English became Modern English - raising of the mid vowels the rest follow
- Northern Cities chain shift -
complementary distribution

when sounds do not occur in the same environment, they do not overlap
minimal pairs

differ only by one phoneme seal-zeal bed-red

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Linguistics Exam 2 UNH ENG 402

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linguistic processes

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