LING 2P50 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Darth Vader, Palatal Nasal, Velar Nasal
15 Jan 2016
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Syllables, phonotactics, stress, intonation (signified by pitch), rhythm, tone. In english we do not have the following words: spuk, nam, pfal. No / / to begin a word, all other consonants can. Stops can be followed by liquids and glides. Exception is no [dl] or [tl] because they are the same place of. No /h/"s in codas because its hard to hear. English suprasegmentals: above segments- things you can break up (vowels and consonants) . Phonotactics: study of all possible sound combinations in a given language. Systematic gaps: word that doesn"t exist because they violate english constraints. Accidental gaps: words that don"t exist but could. Syllabification for assigning primary and secondary stress to syllables. Fricatives are uncommon, more common to find bilabial stops and. Labiodental: oral stops do not occur, only fricatives. : nasal stop [ ] occurs in one language (teke) but otherwise only. Ex. symphony in english; difficult to perceive intervocalically.
