LING 1001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Minimal Pair, Phoneme, Nasal Consonant
19 Jan 2017
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If 2 sounds _contrast___ they come from different phonemes. If 2 sounds never occur in the same environment they are in __complimentary distribution___ If 2 sounds can be exchanged for one another without changing meaning they are in. If 2 sounds do not contrast in a language they may be in __complimentary distribution___ or in __free variation___. Determining phonemic status: minimal pair: identical sequence of sounds except for one position (eg. pat, bat or rat rad or tack tuck) If two sounds contrast they represent different phonemes. Prove these pairs of sounds are from different phonemes i. e. they contrast, in english: , e (let/late), (cid:1852) i (hit/heat), t d (chill/jill), , (cid:1853) (ball/bar), l (lip/rip), What about h ? (these are different phonemes) Contrast: sesotho [t ] & [t, english [t ] & [ t ] but not [t ] & [t] t aba (mountain) taba (thing, affair) t p t p t p ?? t p.
