ATS1338 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Vocal Folds, Haplology, Orangutan
9 Aug 2018
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Our efficiency gives rise to a number of phonological processes. E. g. didya, miss you: deletion. Consonants, vowels and even whole syllables are frequently left out. Frequent words do exceptional things - fidelholz 1975. Frequency leads to the reduction of form. When gestures of articulation become automatic this triggers a reduction in the timing and magnitude of these gestures. The speed of execution automatically increases, the transition between sounds becomes more fluent, and the movements might even overlap. [t] and [d] are often deleted when between 2 consonants. Change involving the deletion of syllables is haplology. Typically, deleted syllables are identical or similar to the neighbouring syllables; e. g. library might be pronounced with three syllables, but more usually two: new sounds appear - epenthesis. Epenthesis can refer to any process in which a sound is added to a word. This is a less common process than loss and the motivation is different. Some languages show a preferred c(onsonant) v(owel) syllable structure.
