LING 1F94 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Phonetic Transcription, Syllabification, Complementary Distribution
17 Feb 2017
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Complementary distribution: sounds are never in the same environment. One is underlying, the rest are allophones. Looking for a natural class: a set of sounds that share a similar feature/phonetic parameter. Above the segment or suprasegmental phonological unit. Phonetic transcription: [d spajt], [st r], [r ptajd], [ ntaj] , [tow l] Part of linguistic competence of a native speaker that includes a rule of syllabification. Rules of this sort, ones that concern the arrangement of phones, are part of our phonology. That part of our linguistic competence governs how sounds of a language are arranged. Words in english may only begin with the following 3-phoneme clusters (ignoring vowels): s p {r, l, j} t {r, (j)} k {r, k, w, j} This permits, for example, the following words: Tree notation: identify the nucleus/centre of syllable. K strim: identify the beginning of the syllable, which is called the onset.
