LINGUIST 1A03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Syllable

• School: McMaster University
• Department: Linguistics
• Course: LINGUIST 1A03
• Professor: Catherine Anderson

Document Summary

**assignment #1 due tomorrow!! (remember: submit document as pdf) Remember: aspiration on some voiceless stops at the beginning of a stressed syllable. Peak of sonority surrounded by less sonorous sounds (the vowel; the nucleus of the syllable; surrounded by consonants) Rank from most to least sonorous: vowels, nasals and liquids, glides, fricatives, flaps, stops. Disyllabic words (2 charts like the one above; when there is more than one syllable) Onset will take as many consonants as it can that are possible and grammatical. Onsets are greedy! (must be possible in english in order to do so) Morphology sometimes does not map to the chart above (ex. Mistake; there is not aspiration on the t therefore, the -st go into the onset of the second syllable) Prosodic information (rhythm, timing, meter, stress)--> the sauce of a statement (extra info that makes the word more understandable. Tone differences signal a contrast in meaning (english does not do this, seen in other languages)