LING 1001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Minimal Pair, Obstruent, Phoneme

• School: Carleton University
• Department: Linguistics
• Course: LING 1001
• Professor: Anne Laubstein

Document Summary

List the environments for each of the sounds. Mohawk [s] and [z] jiks "fly" stu:ha "a little bit" zo:lah "dusk: onizela "shelf, wisk "five" te:zekw. Rules reading and assigning types: vodka effect: [-son] > [-voice] / ___ [-voice] obstruent becomes voiceless followed by a voiceless sound. Type: assimilation: vodka votka balka nc, [-son] > [+voice] / ___ [+voice] obstruent becomes voiced followed by a voiced sound. Type: assimilation: besbal bezbal resto nc, [-son] > [-voice] / __ $ obstruent becomes voiceless at the end of a syllable. Type: weakening: weg wek bux nc, v > [+nas] / __ [+nas] vowel becomes nasal in front of a nasal sound. Type: assimilation: an n nut nc, [+cor, -cont] > [-ant] / __ j coronal stop becomes minus antieur in front of the sound j. Type: assimilation: nets nc rotje rot je, [+son. +cons] > / c __ # sornatant constants becomes nothing after a constant an the end of a word.