LINGUIST 201 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: English Plurals, Obstruent, Sonorant
13 Feb 2017
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Phonetics: study of the physical aspect of speech (concrete physiological and acoustic bases of speech) Phonology: study of the linguistic patterning of sounds in human languages (more abstract cognitive concepts). Natural class: a group of sounds in a language that share one or more articulatory properties, to the exclusion of all other sounds in that language. Sonorant consonants: speech sound, usually voiced, produced with an airflow that is neither interrupted nor turbulent. Sonorants in english include the vowels (a, e, i, o, u), the glides (w, y), the liquids (l, r), and the nasals (m, n, and the ng) Sibilant sounds: alveolar and postalveolar fricatives and affricates. Add [ z]/[ z] to nouns ending in one of the following sounds: [s, , , z, , ] Add [z] to words ending in voiced sounds. Add [s] to words ending in voiceless sounds. Add [d] to words ending in a voiced sound. Add [t] to words ending in a voiceless sound.
