Consonant harmony phonological process

Consonant harmony takes place in CVC syllables where the two consonants are different. One of the consonants triggers the other to assume its place of articulation. This results in a CVC syllable in which the two consonants are now the same – they have harmonized.

1. How do you describe consonant harmony?
2. What are the five phonological processes?
3. What is Depalatalization phonological process?
4. What is Affrication in speech?

How do you describe consonant harmony?

Consonant harmony, or long-distance consonant assimilation (Hansson, 2010a; Rose, 2011; Rose & Walker, 2004), refers to sound patterns in which co-occurring consonants are required to agree in some phonological property (feature), even when they are not immediately adjacent to one another.

What are the five phonological processes?

Are Phonological Processes Normal?

• Cluster Reduction (pot for spot)
• Reduplication (wawa for water)
• Weak Syllable Deletion (nana for banana)
• Final Consonant Deletion (ca for cat)
• Velar Fronting (/t/ for /k/ and /d/ for /g/)
• Stopping (replacing long sounds like /s/ with short sounds like /t/)

What is Depalatalization phonological process?

Phonological processes are patterns of sound errors that typically developing children use to simplify speech as they are learning to talk. ... Depalatalization When a palatal sound is substituted with a nonpalatal sound "fit" for "fish" 5 yrs.

What is Affrication in speech?

In speech production, the term affricate refers to a category of consonant sounds that comprise both a stop consonsant (e.g. /t/, /d/, /p/) and a fricative sound (e.g., /s/, /z/, /sh/). English has two affricates – /ch/ (as in church) and /j/ (as in judge).