- Simplification of external consonant clusters
- Sibilant softening (a dying rule)
- velar softening (morphological)
- vowel-loading and vowel-lightening rules (morphological in part or whole:Look at the note I)
- shift of heavy vowels (morphological)
- liquid vocalization
- synaresis
- apical-stop spirantization
- u-fronting
- n-assimilation
- g/b-deletion
- vowel-reductions and schwa-deletion
- flectional-e deletion
- fricative-assimilation and -dissimilation
- t-assimilation
- d/n-assimilation
- apical-fronting
- p-assimilation
- deletion of inter consonantal apical stops
- schwa-epenthisis
- sonorant-nuclearization
- apical palatalization
- lamination of apical siblants
- Consonant-changes (Look at the note 2)
- consonant-simplification
- shwa-sonorant coalascene
- postnasal t-deletion and -assimilation
- peak neutralization I
- backward gemination of sonorants
- peak neutralization II (many subrules)
- diphtongization
- peak-neutralization III
- lateral-deletion (morphological)
- forward gemination of sonorants
- stop-epenthisis
- sonorant-degemination
- glottalization
- assimilation of syllabic-n
- glide-deletion
- aspiration
- glide-blending
- Internuclear t-lightening
- Creation of stressed ur, er, el
- desulcalization with nuclear-lengthening
- allegro shwa-assimilation
- smooothing
- rounding, retroflexion and velar-fronting
- peak-neutralization and vowel adjustments--these include many lect-specific rules for in-gliding, retraction, diphthongization after laminopalatals and up-gliding, etc
- nasal-absorption
- length details
- boundary-deletions
Note 1:
- Lightening before a heavy consonant cluster
- Tryssylabic lightenin
- gymnasium-rule
- loading of prevocalic stressed vowel
- occlusion I and II
- intersiblant fricativization
- v-deletion
- palatalization before r
- d-change before syllabic nasal
- apical-changes in irish english
- r-deletion in clusters in North America
- Final "ch"
- ts-coalescence
- stop-lenition or disocclusion
- sonorant-devoicing
- w-change in british lects
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