Language Structure Problems
Identifying Processes in a Word chain
Identify the processes you need to go from the first word to the second. for convenience, a list of phonological processes is given at the bottom of the page.
Use each one once. These are straight-forward; You need only one process for each.
Note that a few forms here are not real English words. Friendly warning: watch your brackets.
- 1. [skænt] to 'can't'
- 2. 'can't' to 'can'
- 3. 'can' to 'knack'
- 4. 'knack' to 'snack'
- 5. 'snack' to 'sack'
- 6. 'sack' to 'sag'
- 7. 'sag' to 'sang'
- 8. [sæŋ] to [sæŋt]
- 9. [sæŋt] to [sænt]
- 10. [sænt] to [sænd]
- aphesis
- apocope
- epenthesis
- manner assimilation
- metathesis
- nasalization
- place of articulation assimilation
- syncope
- voicing
- voicing assimilation