LINGUIST 1A03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Nasal Vowel, Epenthesis

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

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Linguistics week 4 notes (cid:862)s(cid:272)h(cid:449)a is (cid:374)ot stressed, (cid:271)e like s(cid:272)h(cid:449)a(cid:863) We use shwa in unstressed syllables (upside down e) reduced syllable. We use the wedge (upside down v) when syllable is stressed. Stress syllables are longer, louder, higher in pitch. The syllable you hold longest when hollering is stressed. Tense vowels ipa symbols are similar to lower case actual english letter. Vowels reduced to schwa in unstressed syllables. Nasals/liquids might be syllabic in unstressed syllables. Voiceless stops in the onset of a stressed syllable get aspirated. When we speak our articulators are always moving. From the position of sound the(cid:455) just (cid:373)ade to prepari(cid:374)g to (cid:373)ake sou(cid:374)d that"s (cid:272)o(cid:373)i(cid:374)g up. When we produce the first letter in words our mouths are already preparing for upcoming vowel; coarticulation. Coarticulation: the articulation of every speech sound that is shaped by the sounds that come before and after it. Assimilation: involves sounds becoming more similar to each other.