Lesser known phonological processes

palatalization

palatal sound that replaces a nonpalatal target word

palatal sounds are more complex to make = more complex disorder

Ex) beegie for bees chew for sew

affrication

replacing a stop/fricative with an affricate

more common in spanishs speakers learning english

Ex) choup for soup or chew for shoe

backing

back of the mouth consonants (velar/glottal) replace the front-of-the mouth consonants

rare in normal phonological development

Ex) koo for shoe or gough for dough

alveolarization

replacing consonants made with lips or teeth with consonants made with the alveolar ridge

anterior phonemes ONLY - slight place shift of the phoneme

Ex) sood for food or sin for thin

tar for car is NOT alveolarization

labialization

sound change involving labial sounds replacing interdental or alveolar obstruents

slight place change

Ex) fun for sun or fin for thin

pre-vocalic voicing

voiceless obstruent that comes before a vowel is being voiced

Ex) dake for take or gake for cake

post-vocalic voicing

voiced obstruent in word-final position becomes voiceless

Ex) mate for made or rak for rag

metathesis

reversal of the position of 2 sounds

sounds don’t need to be adjacent to one another nor do they have to occur in the same word

Ex) aks for ask — dialectical use

Ex) boats for boast (switching the [s] and [t])

coalescence

to collapse or combine into a whole

features of 2 adjacent segments are collapsed to form one segment with features from both of the of segments

Ex) foon for spoon and fain for train