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    This document discusses several phonetic processes including assimilation, metathesis, epenthesis, epithesis, elision, and cluster reduction. Assimilation is when a speech sound comes to resemble or become identical with a neighboring sound between or within words. There are three types of assimilation: regressive, progressive, and reciprocal. Metathesis is the transposition of speech sounds. Epenthesis is the insertion of an extra consonant within a word. Epithesis is the addition of an extra consonant to the end of a word. Elision and cluster reduction involve dropping or simplifying consonant clusters to aid pronunciation. Examples are provided to illustrate each process.

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    This document discusses several phonetic processes including assimilation, metathesis, epenthesis, epithesis, elision, and cluster reduction. Assimilation is when a speech sound comes to resemble or become identical with a neighboring sound between or within words. There are three types of assimilation: regressive, progressive, and reciprocal. Metathesis is the transposition of speech sounds. Epenthesis is the insertion of an extra consonant within a word. Epithesis is the addition of an extra consonant to the end of a word. Elision and cluster reduction involve dropping or simplifying consonant clusters to aid pronunciation. Examples are provided to illustrate each process.

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    This document discusses several phonetic processes including assimilation, metathesis, epenthesis, epithesis, elision, and cluster reduction. Assimilation is when a speech sound comes to resemble or become identical with a neighboring sound between or within words. There are three types of assimilation: regressive, progressive, and reciprocal. Metathesis is the transposition of speech sounds. Epenthesis is the insertion of an extra consonant within a word. Epithesis is the addition of an extra consonant to the end of a word. Elision and cluster reduction involve dropping or simplifying consonant clusters to aid pronunciation. Examples are provided to illustrate each process.

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    PHONETIC PROCESS

    Assimilation
    Metathesis
    Epenthesis
    Epithesis

    Assimilation
    A process by which one speech sound
    comes to resemble or become
    identical with a neighboring sound
    between words or within a word

    Types of Assimilation

    Regressive
    the sound changes because of the the influence
    of the following sound
    e.g. ten bikes /ten baiks/ /tembaiks/
    AS CS

    Progressive
    the sound changes because of the influence of the
    preceding sound
    e.g. He left the town /hi lef taun/ /hi lef taun/
    CSAS

    Reciprocal
    There is mutual influence, or fusion, of the sounds
    upon each other
    e.g. Did You /did ju:/ /did /

    Ket CS :Conditioning sound


    AS : Assimilated sound

    Metathesis

    the transposition of speech sound


    e.g. tragedy tradegy
    aks ask

    Epenthesis

    The insertion of extra consonant


    within a word.
    e.g. something /smi/
    /smpi/

    Epithesis

    The addition of an extra consonant


    to the end of a word.
    e.g. soun /sun/ sound

    Elision

    Elision is a process where one or more


    phonemes are dropped, usually in order
    to simplify the pronunciation.
    For Example: police, correct or
    suppose, friendship being realised as
    [pli:s], [kkt] or [spz], [frenip]

    <h> is a feature that is very common in


    many accents of (especially English or
    English-influenced) English.
    For example: as in give her/give him,
    [gv:]/[gvm] or tell her/tell him, [tl:]/
    [tlm] , or forms of the auxiliary have
    as in would have, [wdv], should have,
    [dv], etc.

    Cluster Reduction

    When two or more consonants, often of a similar nature, come


    together, there is a tendency in English to simplify such a cluster
    by eliding one of them.

    The longer the cluster, the more of a chance there is of elision.

    Cluster reduction can occur in between as well as inside words


    and mainly involves the deletion of voiceless oral plosives where
    it would otherwise be more difficult to produce two plosives in a
    row as this would require two closure phases.

    If a reduction occurs inside a word, it may also lead to a


    reduction in the number of syllables, such as in the examples
    given in the introductory section above, which have become
    mono-syllabic.

    Elision itself is often a precursor to or occurs in conjunction with


    assimilation, which well discuss in one of the next sections.

    Aya's Prop/Int to Ling (2)

    Example of Cluster Reduction


    word/combination

    no elision

    elision

    asked

    [:skt]

    [:st]

    lecture

    [lkt]

    [lk]

    desktop

    [dsktp]

    [dstp]

    hard disk

    [h:ddsk]

    [h:dsk]

    kept quiet

    [kptkwat]

    [kpkwat]

    at least twice

    [tli:sttwas]

    [tli:stwas]

    straight towards

    [stettwo:dz]

    [stetwo:dz]

    next to

    [nkstt]

    [nkst]

    seemed not to notice

    [si:mdnttnts]

    [si:mntnts]

    for the first time

    [ff:sttam]
    Aya's Prop/Int to Ling (2) [ff:stam]

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