Articulatory simplification Spelling pronunciation
Old English Modern English Word
na:ma ne m
name sticca
st k stick
c Aphaeresis or apheresis atata tata
“Aphaeresis refers to changes which delete the initial sound usually a vowel of a word Campbell, 2004: 34”. For example in Spanish language in the
word ahora becomes hora which means now.
4 Sound Addition asta asata
Sound addition also knows as epentheses or insertions. It is a process in which phonological rules can add the entire phonemic segment Fromkin and
Rodman, 1975: 104. The loss of sounds is a very common kind of sound change, but sounds are sometimes added rather than dropped. The example is taken form
the word something [s
Λ
mp
θI
ŋ
k
] rather than [s
Λ
mp
θI
ŋ]. In sound change, sound could be inserted in several different ways.
a Prothesis tata atata
“Prothesis is a kind of sound addition in which a sound is inserted at the beginning of a word Campbell, 2004: 35”. For example in French language in
the word scola which is inserted the sound [e] becomes escola means school.
b Anaptyxis or anaptyctic VCCV VCVC
“Anaptyxis is a kind of sound addition in which an extra vowel is inserted between two consonants Campbell, 2004: 36”. For example in the words athlete
[æ θli:t] as [æθəli:t] and in the word film [f lm] as [f ləm] which are added with the
extra vowel [ ə].
c Excrescence amra ambra
“Excrescence is a type of a sound addition which refers to a consonant being inserted between other consonants Campbell, 2004: 36”.
d Paragoge tat tata
“Paragoge is added a sound usually a vowel to the end of a word Campbell, 2004: 37”.
5 Metathesis asta atsa
“Metathesis is the transposition of sound which is a change in which sounds exchange position with one another within a word Campbell, 2004: 39”.
Metathesis does not involve the loss or addition of sounds, or a change in the appearance of a particular sound. Metathesis is simply a change in the order of the
sounds. For example, the words ask [æsk] is pronounced as [æks].
6 Diphthongization
“Diphthongization refers to any change in which an original single vowel changes into a sequence of two vowel segments which to gather occupy the
nucleus of a single syllable Campbell, 2004: 42”. For example in Spanish language the vowel [ ] and [ ] diphthongizied to ie and ue as in the word p tra
becomes piedra mean stone, b no becomes bueno means good.
7 Monophthongization
According to Campbell, monophthongization is the changed of diphthong into a single vowel 2004: 42. For example in the monophthongization of [ai] to
[a:] before r in some dialects as in fire [fa ə] becomes [fa:r] and tire [ta ə]
becomes [ta:r]. PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI