Gliding: production of liquids /l/ and /r/ as glides /w/ and /j/.Fronting: replacement of back consonants and palatal consonants with consonants produced at or in front of the alveolar ridge.Epenthesis: addition of consonants or vowels.Depalatalization: movement of the place of articulation of a palatal sound from the palate to a position forward in the mouth, typically the alveolar region.Devoicing: deletion of voicing from voiced consonants.Denasalization: nasals become denasal.Deaffrication: replacement of an affricate consonant with a fricative consonant, or change of an affricate target phoneme to a stop.Consonant Deletion: omission of a consonant in the word initial or word final position.

Cluster Reduction: deletion or replacement of one or more consonants in a consonant cluster, or two sounds together.

Posterior consonants include: k, g, ng, h.

Backing: substitution of a posterior consonant for an anterior consonant.

For example: cup-pup, dog-gog, kitty-kiki. Assimilation: prudction of a phoneme that is more like another phoneme in the target word.Alveolarization: replacement of consonants made with the teeth or lips with consonants made at the alveolar ridge.Affrication: replacement of a fricative consonant with an affricate consonant.Some examples of commonly used phonological processes include but are not limited to: Phonological processes and are a way in which typically developing children simplify adult speech patterns.

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