LING 1001 Lecture Notes - Dissimilation, Voiceless Alveolar Fricative, Homorganic Consonant
6 Mar 2014
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Riding on top of sounds often on vowel sounds. Length how long the duration of a sound is (c + v) Intonation the way some languages changes in pitch to express sentence level meanings (i. e. question, disbelief, declarative statements, surprise, doubt, etc. ) Tone also involves how a language uses pitch (in tone languages pitch signals changes in meaning: stress about prominence. Makes syllables stand out as more salient than others in a word (i. e. , louder, longer, of higher pitch). Generalization: psychologist berko-gleason"s wug- experiment (1958, study on how children pronounced words. Phonological rules we have permantly memorized natural grammar (un)predictability: vocabulary is arbitrary. We need to memorize by brute force. Two levels of representation: pronunciation is not totally unpredictable. We need to memorize what is a systematically predictable aspect of the way sounds are realized in a language. Two levels of representation: phonemic level of representation = ur (underlying representation)
