LING 2P53 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Alveolar And Postalveolar Approximants, Phonotactics, Accidental Gap
8 Apr 2018
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Different from phonetics because phonetics deals with a physical sound whereas phonology deals with a sound as a cognitive concept. Recent developments in phonology recognize an important effect of phonetics: sound categories are constrained by a tension between faithfulness and minimization of articulatory effort. Phonetic = real, measurable articulatory gestures and acoustic events. Sounds are not acoustic events, they are symbolic, cognitive abstractions. Sounds are classes/types of acoustic or articulatory events. Word forms and meanings are usually arbitrary except for onomatopoeia. Ferdinand saussure popularized linguistics in the 19th century with signified/signifier dichotomy. The sound pattern frog is the signifier for the signified amphibian on the lilypad. Phonological forms are not singleton, they have allophones. Vary by word, part of word and context (i. e. isolated vs continuous, slow vs fast speech etc) There are underlying forms and occam"s 14th century razor . There should be a tick mark above the vowel ( v )to symbolize stress.
