LINGUIST 1Z03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Inflection, Epenthesis, Canadian English
9 Dec 2017
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One kind of english is considered basic, and all other englishes are departures from it. Across english dialects, vowels vary more than consonants, since consonants require arituclators to touch or nearly touch in a specific way. The tongue position for vowels is harder to describe. Usually homophones sound the same in some english dialects but not in others. Sound merger - words pronounced differently in some dialects are pronounced the same in others. If they are pronounced the same, at least one pair of sounds have merged. Pin/pen merger - pin and pen are pronounced the same, and the one that is assumed depends on the situation. Falling (associated with older people) vs. rising at the end of a statement. Young people tend to mostly hang on to their parent"s sound patterns, but youth slang changes constantly. Language is mutable - it changes over time. For much of pre-history, people that li(cid:448)ed far a(cid:449)ay fro(cid:373) each other ofte(cid:374) did(cid:374)"t co(cid:373)(cid:373)u(cid:374)icate.
