LING 201 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Continuant, Complementary Distribution, Structural Change
8 Feb 2018
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Quiz on friday: opens 2:30 friday, until 2:30 saturday, available on mycourses, under quizzes, allowed 2 hours to complete, multiple choice, t/f, descriptions of ipa, transcriptons. Conferences: starting this week, look out for conference room changes. Topics today: overview, rules, rule application, left side of arrow, right side of arrow, rule ordering, summary. Two levels of representation: phonological, info about contrasts, phonetic, info about pronunciation details. Questions of phonology: the nature of the abstract underlying forms, the nature of surface forms, how to map between these two forms. Intervocalic flapping/tapping: {t,d} becomes {r} between vowels. Good rules have 3 parts: useful name, prose statement, rule itself. Rules are: language specific and productive, productive -> will apply when the context is there (even if the word is unknown, well-formed, untaught, unconcious. Identify whether the structural description matches the representation. If it matches, rewrite according to the rule. Left s]side of arrow (chart 8_phonology_3): target, usually a single, natural class of segments.
