LING 330 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Formant, Phoneme, Epenthesis
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Connected speeches are strings of words produced together. Different from citation forms (the way the word is likely to be pronounced if you"re reciting it as a citation in a dictionary) Csp often associated with casual (style) or fluent/fast (rate) speech. Now we"ll discuss them as more general phenomena. Assimilation: segment takes on properties of neighboring segment. The place of articulation changes to match the place of articulation of the neighboring sound. Many allophonic patterns can be understood in terms of assimilation. Hit the road, jack : deletion kk tn dn nn. Epenthesis: a segment is pronounced that is not underlying (phonemic) Adding an obstruent in order to transition to the next sound. She came in through the bathroom window : epenthesis. Over time, epenthesis can come to affect spelling (spelling is supposed to reflect how you say the word): Are these word-pairs identical for you or do you pronounce them differently? mints.
