LINGUIST 1A03 Study Guide - Final Guide: Complementary Distribution, Circumfix, Morpheme

• School: McMaster University
• Department: Linguistics
• Course: LINGUIST 1A03
• Professor: Catherine Anderson

Document Summary

Peak of sonority surrounded by less sonorous sounds. Prescriptive (makes a claim) vs descriptive (describes) Glottal stop - when vocal folds close. Categorization - voicing, place of articulation, and manner of articulation. Voiced: approximants, starts with closure, releases, two sounds together, liquids (l, r, glides (j, w, flaps. 2: rounding, tenseness (tense or lax, tense vowels can feasibly end a word, lax vowels in ipa . Voiceless stops in onset of stressed syllable get aspirated. (ij, ej, ow, uw) **lower case a never becomes one. Voiceless stops at the beginning of a stressed syllable become aspirated (p, t, k) Sound info above level of individual speech segments: = how fast vocal folds are vibrating. Distinct sounds that separate one word from another. Start by classifying - descriptions, phonetic features. Category of sounds that mental grammar treats as the same. Segments that are phonetically different that the mental grammar treats as members of the same phoneme.