Phonologycal Process

Phonology is not a static in wich an establish unit unchanged in all its accurrence. There is a universal principle that applies to all sound systems, namely, that sound units tend to be influnced by their environment. “Environment” as used here refers specifically to the influence of neighboring units, the position in wich a sound accurs in larger units such as a syllable, morpheme, or word, and the accurence of certain suprasegmental units such as stress an intonation.

Ultimately, the modification of sounds seems to follow natural principle retad to physiological and physiological strategies. Phonological processes apply to alter phonemic forms of words in various ways.

In the above example, the sound as stored may sometimes differ from the sound as spoken. Some processes make sequences of sounds easien to pronounce. Processes can also make individual sounds easier to perceive. Some processes adjust the timing of sounds to maintain a steady rhythm in speech.

There are several kinds of phonological processes wich fulfill the function described above. One the most common kindof processesfound in language is assimilation, in wich a sound takes on the charateristics of a neighboring sound. There are two necessary components that define assimilation first, a sound that changes (the assimilating sounds) and second that causes the change (the conditioningsound progressive assimilation, the assimilated sound follow the conditioning sound. Regressive assimilation, the assimilated segment precedes the conditioning item.

When an assimilation process results in contiguous identical conconants, it is called gemination. In the phonological process of deletion units wich accor in some contexts are lost in others. A phonological process where a sound segment is added of inserted to a form is called insertion or commonly termed in phonology as epenthesis. When two segments reverse positions the processin known as metathesis pronoucing ask as ask represents the remnants of this process.