LING 1F94 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Syllabification, Phonotactics, First Language
17 Feb 2017
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Human brains are ready for language acquisition. Mental lexicon is a list of known words (bilinguals have 2 mental lexicons) The formation of onsets and codas is ordered so that onsets are formed before codas. This is crucial, its due to this ordering. [k] cannot be part of the onset, but [str] can because of phonotactical constraints. [ek . strim] not [eks . trim: identify the nucleus (vowels, look to left and identify the onset, look to the right and identify the coda. Use grammatical structure of l1 and map it on to the structure of l2. True in terms of stress placement, phonetic segments used. We pronoun(cid:272)e (cid:862)psy(cid:272)hology(cid:863) the was we do (cid:271)e(cid:272)ause [ps] is not a possible onset in.
