chapter 11.8: Assimilation The principle of least effort, also called ease of articulation, describes how speakers of a language naturally seek to expend the least effort possible to articulate sounds without losing intelligibility. Illustrations of …
chapter 11.7: Unconditioned sound changes One of the primary areas of change within a language is the change in its system of sounds, and much of the nineteenth-century work in linguistics was spent in figuring …
chapter 11.4: consonants The following chart gives the IPA symbols for each of the 24 consonants used in General American English. An interactive chart with sound examples of each phoneme tags: phonology can be found …