LINGUIST 1A03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Coarticulation, Chipotle, Epenthesis

• School: McMaster University
• Department: Linguistics
• Course: LINGUIST 1A03
• Professor: Catherine Anderson

Document Summary

Key, cool - start with a voiceless velar stop. Coarticulation - the articulation of every speech sound is shaped by the sounds that come before and after. Assimilation: sounds becoming more similar with to each other. Anticipatory assimilation: the vowel is becoming more similar to the sound that follows it. Progressive assimilation: the voiceless of the first sound progresses to the next sound. Deletion: when an unstressed vowel gets reduced so much it disappears. Such as the first r in surprise and the d in wednesday. Epenthesis: articulatory process which inserts an extra sound. Children speech usually have the process of metathesis - which is an articulatory process which exchanges the position of speech segments.