Saturday, April 30, 2011

CJB: Vocalic quantity changes

V(long) à V(light) /__C(+)C


 

Wide: width

Deep:depth

Heal:health

Moon:month

Wise:wisdom

Goose:gosling

Sleep:slept

Feed: fed (=fed+t)

Kneel:knelt (but kneel#ed)

Creep:crept (creep#ed)

Drive:drift (driv+th)

Break:breakfast

Child:children

Boil:ebullient

Float:flotsam


 

The following CC function as a single consonant.

  1. Occlusive + //r//: cathedral, apron, matron
  2. //kw//, sequence
  3. –nge: change, range, lounge vs. sponge, tangent, fringe
  4. –nce, bounce, pronounce
  5. //ld// wild, child
  6. //rd// weird, beard
  7. //st// coast, beast, toast, waste
  8. //nd//, bind, bound, find
  9. //nt// count


 


 

No comments: