PHONEMIC SIMPLIFICATIONS

• What is deletion?

  omitting the final consonant in words
• What is substitution?

  substituting one sound for the harder sounds that appear later
• what is addition?

  adding extra sounds to create a CVCV pattern
• what is assimilation?

  changing one consonant sound for another
• what is reduplication?

  repeating a whole syllable
• what is consonant cluster reduction?

  clusters of consonants are hard so children reduce to easier sounds
• what is deletion of unstressed syllables?

  omitting opening syllables in polysyllabic words