Phonological rules

Phonological rules

1. Types

   • Categorical and Variable
     • Categorical
       • When it can apply, it regularly applies.
         • Epenthesis
           • Insertion or deletion of sounds.
             • Spanish
               • Esquí
             • English
               • Ski
                 • Word Initial Sc
         • Vowel Nasalization
     • Variable
       • It applies sometimes, and its frecuency drops off of picks up according to factors such as social class, sex, style, and age
         • English G-dropping
   • General and Dialectal

2. Spanish Rules

   • Glide strengthning
   • Nasal Assimilation
   • Lateral Assimilation
   • S-voicing
   • S-aspiration
   • Spirantization of /b d g/
   • Word-internal

3. English rules

   • Aspiration
   • Preglottalization
   • Flapping
   • Palatalization