Phonology

Phoneme: smallest phonological unit (sound)

Lexical onomatopeia: 'crash' 'bang'
Non-lexical onomatopeia 'vroom' 'sshh' 'grr'

Alliteration
Assonance
Consonance

Homophones = same pronunciation, different spelling = different semantics

  • Whine and wine

Homonyms = same word, different semantics --> LEXIS and SEMANTICS

  • speaker (talker, or music)


Phonemic substitution
Consonant cluster reduction
Final consonant dropping [ing]
Glottal stopping
[l] vocalisation
[h]-dropping

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