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[g]→[d]Certainty: 5/5Commonality: 4/5

Fronting Velar Fronting Developmental Germanic

Voiced velar plosive to Voiced alveolar plosive

Fronting of the voiced velar stop [g] to the voiced alveolar stop [d] is a very common phonological process in child language development.

Phonetic Effects

Fronting, Velar Fronting

Language Examples

Child Speech (English) Germanic

go→dough— early speech development

give→div— early speech development

Related Transformations

More Germanic Shifts

[a] → [ã] — Assimilatory Nasalization [a] → [∅] — Elision [a] → [ʔ] — Glottalization [a] → [ə] — Vowel Reduction [æ] → [ɛ] — Vowel Raising

Sources & References

Crystal, D. (2008). A Dictionary of Linguistics and Phonetics (6th ed.). Blackwell Publishing.

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