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| Air pressure released during production of a voiceless stop-plosive, at initial-consonant position. E.g. The word 'pit'. |
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| Variations of phoneme realisations, don't change word meaning. E.g 'top' and 'stop' |
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| Words that differ by only one phoneme. |
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| Variants that don't change word meaning, no rule to predict. |
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| Complementary Distribution |
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| One will not occur in the other's context. |
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| Modifications in speech- intonation, stress, duration. |
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| Effects of adjacent sounds on each other. |
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| Segment influences following segment. |
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| Segment influences preceding segment. E.g. 'unbalanced' |
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| Ejective Non-Pulmonic Sounds |
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| Implosive Non-Pulmonic Sounds |
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| Click Non-Pulmonic Sounds |
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| Ingressive velaric airstream. |
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| TRAP raising -> DRESS. DRESS raising -> KIT. KIT centralising -> COMMA. |
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| Two vowels neutralising and becoming more similar. |
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| One change to another, to another. |
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| From difficulty in motor control of body of the tongue. /k/ -> /t/ & /g/ -> /d/ |
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| Insertion of sound segment. "please" -> /peliz/ |
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| Final Consonant Deletion- omission of last sound of word if it is a consonant. |
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| Weak Syllable Deletion- omission of unstressed syllable. |
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| Cluster Reduction- Simplification of consonant clusters by omission of consonant/s. |
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