LING 2P53 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1-4: Complementary Distribution, Close Vowel, Underlying Representation
15 Jan 2016
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Deals with physical principles underlying the production of sounds, namely. Phonology is an abstract cognitive system dealing with rules in a mental grammar: principles of subconscious thought as they relate to language sound. Sound refers to mechanical pressure waves and the sensations arising wen such wave strikes your ear. In a physical sound, the wave changes continuously and can be graphed as a waveform showing the amplitude on the vertical axis and time on the horizontal axis. Spectrogram: vertical axis represents frequency in hz, and darkness represents amplitude. Fundamental component of language is the lexicon which must provide any info that can"t be predicted by rules in that language. Minimal pairs: pair of words that differ by only one segment/sound. Contrastive/distinctive: 2 sounds contrast if they can form the sole difference between different words in a language (ex. t, d) Phoneme: smallest unit that makes a difference in meaning.
