Suppression of Phonological Patterns

Can you name all of the phonological patterns and the age at which they are typically suppressed?

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Age	Pattern Suppressed	Example
3;0	diminutization	hat = hatty
	initial consonant deletion	cup = up
	reduplication	water = wawa
	final devoicing	bag = back
	prevocalic voicing	cup = gup
3;6	velar fronting	candy = tandy
	alveolar assimilation	yellow = /lelo/
	labial assimilation	cup = pup
	nasal assimilation	spoon = noon
	velar assimilation	doggy = goggy
4;0	cluster reduction	clean = keen
	epenthesis	blue = ba-loo
	unstressed syllable deletion	banana = nana
	deaffrication	chew = shew
	depalatalization	fish = fis
3;0 - 5;0	stopping	soap = toap
5;0	liquid simplification	lake = take
6;0	stridency deletion	shoo = oo
	alveolarization	pan = tan
	labialization	dog = bog
5;0 - 7;0	gliding	rabbit = wabbit
7;0	vocalization	apple = appo

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