- "Phonological rules are commonly used in generative phonology as a notation to capture sound-related operations and computations the human brain performs when producing or comprehending spoken language."
A rule that governs the way in which phonemes are combined to form words.
Phonemes and allophones: The basic units of sound in a language and variations of that sound.
Phonotactics: The study of the possible combinations of phonemes in a language.
Syllable structure: How syllables are formed in a language and what their patterns are.
Prosody: The study of stress, intonation, and rhythm in spoken language.
Morphophonemics: How the meaning of a morpheme can vary depending on its phonetic context.
Assimilation: When sounds become more similar to nearby sounds, often resulting in a change in pronunciation.
Dissimilation: When similar sounds in close proximity become less similar over time.
Deletion: The elimination of a sound in a particular context of a word.
Insertion: The addition of a sound in a particular context of a word.
Metathesis: The transposition of sounds or syllables within a word.
Assimilation: A phonological rule in which one sound becomes more similar to a nearby sound.
Dissimilation: A phonological rule in which a sound becomes less similar to a nearby sound.
Insertion: A phonological rule in which a sound is added to a word.
Deletion: A phonological rule in which a sound is deleted from a word.
Metathesis: A phonological rule in which the order of sounds in a word is changed.
Strengthening: A phonological rule in which a sound becomes more pronounced.
Weakening: A phonological rule in which a sound becomes less pronounced.
Unrounding: A phonological rule in which a rounded vowel becomes unrounded.
Rounding: A phonological rule in which an unrounded vowel becomes rounded.
Vowel harmony: A phonological rule in which vowels within a word become more similar.
Consonant harmony: A phonological rule in which consonants within a word become more similar.
- "Phonological rules describe mappings between two different levels of sounds representation—in this case, the abstract or underlying level and the surface level."
- "Bruce Hayes (2009) describes them as 'generalizations' about the different ways a sound can be pronounced in different environments."
- "Phonological rules describe how a speaker goes from the abstract representation stored in their brain, to the actual sound they articulate when they speak."
- "Phonological rules start with the underlying representation of a sound and yield the final surface form, or what the speaker actually pronounces."
- "When an underlying form has multiple surface forms, this is often referred to as allophony."
- "The English plural written -s may be pronounced as [s], [z], or as [əz]."
- "These forms are all theorized to be stored mentally as the same -s, but the surface pronunciations are derived through a series of phonological rules."
- "John Goldsmith (1995) defines phonological rules..."
- "...phonological rules as mappings between two different levels of sounds representation..."
- "They may use phonetic notation or distinctive features or both."
- "Phonological rules are commonly used in generative phonology..."
- "...to capture sound-related operations and computations the human brain performs when producing or comprehending spoken language."
- "Phonological rules are a formal way of expressing a systematic phonological or morphophonological process or diachronic sound change in language."
- "They describe how a speaker goes from the abstract representation stored in their brain, to the actual sound they articulate when they speak."
- "Phonological rules start with the underlying representation of a sound and yield the final surface form, or what the speaker actually pronounces."
- "These forms are all theorized to be stored mentally as the same -s, but the surface pronunciations are derived through a series of phonological rules."
- "When an underlying form has multiple surface forms, this is often referred to as allophony."
- "The English plural written -s may be pronounced as [s], [z], or as [əz]."
- "These forms are all theorized to be stored mentally as the same -s, but the surface pronunciations are derived through a series of phonological rules."