Phonological Rules

Phonological Rules

1. Types of rules

   • Variable
   • General
   • Dialectal

2. Spanish rules

   • Glide strengthening
   • Nasal assimilation
   • Lateral assimilation
   • S- voicing
   • S- aspiration
   • Word-internal
   • At the beginning of speech
   • Across word-boundaries in connected speech:
   • D-Deletion (or Fricative deletion)

3. English rules

   • Aspiration
   • Preglottalization
   • Flapping
   • Palatalization before Yod
   • L-Velarization
   • Diphthongization
   • Vowel reduction
   • Schwa deletion