LING 1001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Syllabification, Canadian English, Phoneme
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Glottal stop & aspirated t: specify the canadian english phonological processes that have applied in the following words: Wa , b m, jt, t t , b wt: name four types of phonological process, translate the following rules into english and then ii) identify which type of process each of these rules exemplifies: V [+nas] / __ [+cons, +nas] vowel becomes nasal in the environment of a nasal constant. / [+cons,+son] __ [+son,-syll] # shwa is inserted between (syllable structure) / c __ # remove shwa after a constant at the end of a word (weakening) Where are most contrasts found (strong = most contrasts): loss of contrast: Between vowels v __ v; cdn eng. d & t waiter / wader seater / seeder. End of word or syllable __ # German: b d g p t k bund [t] but bundes [d] bunt [t] bunte, rad [t] r der [d: unstressed [-stress]