LINC47H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Lexifier, Creolistics, Diphthong
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/d/ is a common sound in the world that tends to be pronounced as dat by some people in the world. Aphesis - omission of the first sound: regarder garder, re is in the beginning of the word and it got omitted from. Acocope - omission at the end of the word: table tab, le is in the end of the word and it gets omitted in table. Prothesis addition of a sound at the beginning of the word: especially if there is a consonant cluster at the beginning of the word. In this case, you add the e sound) Epenthesis addition of a sound in the middle of the word, often a vowel: broom baroom, a vowel is inserted between b and r in barroom in order to. Metathesis changing the order of phonemes: ask aks. In ask, metathesis occurs because k and s switch positions in order to form aks.
