Linguistics 1028A/B Chapter Notes - Chapter ALL: Vowel Length, Phonological Rule, Underlying Representation

• School: Western University
• Department: Linguistics
• Course: Linguistics 1028A/B
• Professor: Stephanie Kelly

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Underlying representation (ur, abstract mental representation) = phonemic form: /x/ => vowels are lengthened in front of a voiced obstruent in english, but not elsewhere. *what has changed in these examples is the intervening syllable boundaries, so in fact the syllable has a role to play here . *if the syllable is shifted what we have is open syllables becoming closed, and they are becoming closed by the voiced obstruent like [owb], [owd], [owg], [rig] and [rid] => english vowels are lengthened when followed by a voiced obstruent in the coda position of the same syllable. English orthography: the concept of ghoti spells sh because the rules are so up in the air that you need to consider the rules of orthography, ** missed the rst 3 slides ^^ Speech production: no one speaker produces speech in an identical fashion.