A presentation on consonant clusters, assimilation and metathesis among children.

1. Phonology (II)
Consonant Clusters, Assimilation, Metathesis
Reported by: Kevin Cedrick R. Castro

3.  two or more consonants in a sequence
without any vowels between them

4. Examples:
Consonant clusters Words
/sp/ speak, spot
/skr/ scrape, scream
/st/ question, investigation
/ry/ crying, trying
/nt/ meant, development
/ld/ child, bald
Consonant Clusters

5.  Two (2) ways in which children may
simplify consonant clusters:
◦ Omission of one or more consonants
◦ Operation of a type of feature synthesis
Consonant Clusters

6. ◦ /s/ + consonant  consonant
◦ consonant + /lrwj/  consonant
◦ /s/ + consonant + /lrwj/  consonant
Consonant Clusters

7. Voiceless fricative
+Laterality
voiceless lateral fricative
Voiceless fricative
+Nasality
voiceless nasal fricative
Consonant Clusters

8. [swim]
[sfim]
[fim]
[wim]
Consonant Clusters

9. Consonant Clusters

10. Consonant Clusters

11. [fim] /s/ [sfim]
Consonant Clusters

12. [swim]
Consonant Clusters

13.  process by which one sound takes on
some or all the characteristics of a
neighboring sound

14. Trigger Target
Assimilation

15. Anticipatory Coarticulation
• Anticipating the gesture for next
sound
• pen  [peb]
Perseverative Assimilations
• Perseveres from the sound that
has already occurred
• shopping  [pᴐpin]
Assimilation

16. Partial assimilation
• Target acquires SOME of the
feature of the trigger
• book  [bugu]
Total assimilation
• Trigger become identical to the
target
• mother  [mama]
Assimilation

17. ◦ Bonds between consonant and vowel
◦ Vowel harmony
◦ Consonant harmony
Assimilation

18.  Place of articulation
 Manner of articulation
Assimilation

20.  interchanging of sounds

21. ◦ Synchronic ~ Diachronic
◦ Adjacent ~ Nonadjacent
◦ Regular ~ Sporadic
◦ Abrupt ~ Gradual
Metathesis

22. Synchronic Diachronic
Occurs within
takes places
one
from one time
chronological
to another
period
Metathesis

23. Adjacent Nonadjacent
transposed sounds
two contiguous
may be separated
sounds are
by one or more
transposed
intervening sounds
Metathesis

24. Regular Sporadic
applies restricted to
consistently to only a few words
many different and occurs
words haphazardly
Metathesis

25. Abrupt Gradual
uses one or more
completely intermediate stages
transposes sound in between the original
a single step order and the final
transposed order
Metathesis

26. alveolar consonant to be delayed
Metathesis

27. Metathesis

28.  Metathesis can involve an interchange
between adjacent consonants in a cluster
but it may also involve an interchange of
consonants across a vowel. In such cases
vowels in successive syllables generally
remain correctly ordered so that we
cannot say that the transposition of whole
syllable is involved.
Metathesis

29.  Metathesis occurs more frequently in
words of more than two syllables, where
the burden on either memory or planning
is obviously greater.
Metathesis