Rules

Connected Speech

The way in which spoken language is produced in a fluid manner, often altering the pronunciation of words.

Vowel Weakening

The change of full vowels to weaker forms, typically occurring in unstressed syllables.

Assimilation

A phonological process where a speech sound changes to become more like a nearby sound.

Insertions

The process of adding a sound in connected speech, often to facilitate pronunciation.

Deletions

The removal of sounds in connected speech, often found in clusters or unstressed function words.

Allophones

Variants of phonemes that occur in different contexts but do not change the meaning of a word.

Voicing Rules

Guidelines determining whether a sound is voiced or voiceless based on surrounding sounds.

Aspiration

The burst of breath that follows the release of certain voiceless plosives, often at the beginning of words.

Dentalising

The process of changing alveolar sounds to dental sounds, typically occurring in proximity to dental sounds.

Labialisation

The articulatory process where consonants are produced with lip rounding in the presence of rounded vowels.

Nasalisation

The modification of vowels or approximants resulting in a nasal quality due to adjacent nasal sounds.

Ejective release

The explosive release of a plosive before a pause that can occur at the end of an utterance.

Unreleased

The phenomenon where plosives are not audibly released in specific contexts, like at word boundaries.