phonological change
phenomenon in phonology
nasalization
production of a sound while the velum is lowered, so that some air escapes through the nose during the production of the sound by the mouth
epenthesis
phonological process involving the addition of one or more sounds to a word
final-obstruent devoicing
phonological process where voiced obstruents become voiceless before voiceless consonants or in pausa; occurs in Catalan, German, Dutch, Breton, Russian, Turkish, Wolof, etc.; e.g.: German Bad [baːt] > Bäder [ˈbɛːdɐ]; Turkish çicek > çiçeği
diphthong hardening
phonological shift from a diphthong to a monophthong plus stop consonant that occurs in some varieties of Romansh and Franco-Provençal; e.g. bouv → bocf
elision
omission of one or more sounds in a word or phrase
L-vocalization
pronouncing "l" sounds as vowels
th-fronting
pronouncing "th" as "f" or "v"
initial-stress-derived noun
phonological process where stress is shifted to change a verb to a noun; such as recórd (v.) and récord (n.)
H-dropping
linguistic phenomenon of not pronouncing the glottal consonants, mostly represented by letters similar to H