Table 1. Phonological processes of single onsets in the Buckeye Corpus. The column name orth represents the orthographic forms, while pron stands for the pronounced phonetic symbols of English consonants. n is the number of occurrences, and ∅ represents deletion.

Orth Pron n Orth Pron n Orth Pron n Orth Pron n Orth Pron n Orth Pron n
b b 13,507 dh dh 19,281 jh jh 3,585 n n 10,933 t t 11,316 w w 19,670
Ø 1,026 n 3,295 ch 164 nx 4,069 dx 4,052 Ø 1,468
v 145 Ø 3,246 zh 163 Ø 1,251 Ø 1,655 hhw 125
m 92 th 996 sh 79 p p 7,380 d 1,442 mw 61
p 69 d 577 Ø 77 b 118 nx 585 y y 12,435
ch ch 1,620 z 364 d 55 r r 7,861 tq 420 Ø 857
sh 366 t 303 k k 11,264 Ø 1,701 n 378 ny 170
d d 9,383 s 231 kl 145 s s 14,251 ch 159 sh 122
dx 2,907 l 184 g 139 z 80 r 72 zh 115
Ø 1,157 dx 139 Ø 99 sh 70 tr 72 ch 88
n 246 g g 7,321 l l 14,060 Ø 60 s 50 jh 61
nx 138 k 99 Ø 1,320 sh sh 4,065 th th 4,716 n 53
t 109 Ø 68 kl 89 ch 66 dh 279 z z 1,712
tq 80 hh hh 11,357 m m 12,919 v v 4,581 Ø 174 s 168
f f 6,807 Ø 2,751 Ø 190 Ø 181 t 67 Ø 68
fr 321 f 60 zh zh 177