The Significance/Function of Phonological Rules in Language

The Significance/Function of Phonological Rules in Language
In a language it is often difficult to tell what the phonetic transcription of a sound will be, when not in isolation. That is, the pronunciation of a sound in a word or sentence is influenced by the sounds around it, and thus, may not be the same as our mental phonemic representation. We can determine the proper phonetic transcriptions/representations of these sounds by first applying phonological rules to the phonemic representations.
Every language has a set of phonological rules that are learned sub-consciously by the native…