LING 1 Chapter Notes - Chapter 6-10: Artistic Language, Minimal Pair, Age 13
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Minimal pair sound segment that occurs in the same place in each word (eg. [k d] and [k t]) Epenthesis denoted by on top of the letter adding extra sounds to a word for assimilation. Allophones basic form of a sound as sensed mentally rather than spoken or heard, written [] sounds corresponding to the phoneme as spoken or heard, written // allophones of a phoneme are in complementary distribution. Aspiration or nasalization on vowels. turning a stop into a fricative group of sounds described by a few distinctive features reducing a stressed vowel to an unstressed, or schwa [ ] Complementary distribution different phoneme allophones of one phoneme only complementary distribution proves allophones. Dialect language of an individual speaker with its unique characteristics when there are systematic differences in the way groups speak a language. Dialects can be different phonetically, lexically, or syntactically.
