LINGUIST 1A03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Free Variation, Phoneme, Sonorant
13 Dec 2016
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Segments that are phonetically different to each other that the mental grammar treats as members of the same phoneme category. Slashes (cid:894)/hi/(cid:895) i(cid:374)di(cid:272)ates it"s a pho(cid:374)e(cid:373)i(cid:272) tra(cid:374)s(cid:272)riptio(cid:374)/(cid:271)road tra(cid:374)s(cid:272)riptio(cid:374) One phoneme in our mind but in two different forms/allophones (complimentary distribution) The one that shows up most places is the underlying form (elsewhere) Phonemes are contrastive so when the segments mean the same word they are not minimal pairs. A(cid:374)y (cid:448)aria(cid:374)ts that are (cid:374)ot (cid:272)o(cid:374)trasti(cid:448)e that do(cid:374)"t lead to a (cid:373)ea(cid:374)i(cid:374)g (cid:272)ha(cid:374)ge are (cid:373)e(cid:373)(cid:271)ers of that same phoneme category called allophones. L has syllabic variant, and voiceless variant but our mind categorizes it as same phoneme. Distribution of allophones: what phonetic elements of each allophone appears in. Most are entirely predictable: phonetically conditioned because it depends what other sounds. Some appear in free variation; random what environment it appears in are nearby the word.
