LINGUIST 1A03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Canadian English, Diacritic, Phonetics
21 May 2018
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Lecture Four
Today’s class:
. We will not be marked on syllabic consonants and aspirations on the assignment
. Check the checklist it’ll be ready by tomorrow
. Goals
. Continue practising transcription, unstressed syllables
What I need to know:
. We have to know the symbols for Canadian English
. What sounds they make
. Articulatory descriptions
. Textbook Section 2.4 and 3.2, Avenue: Useful Tools for Doing Linguistics
Questions
1) How do you pronounce cot and caught? Both are the same
. American English [ah sound], British English [oh—backwards c] (toy, boil)
2) [bənænə]→ Banana
3) [bʌn] → Bun
3) What syllable is stressed in electric? The (lec) [lk]
4) What syllable is stressed in electricity? The (tric) [tɹɪ]
5) Which syllable has primary stress in eraser? [ɹeɪ]
6) What syllable has primary stress in musical? [mju]
7) Which vowels become diphthongs in Canadian English? [e o ]
8) What is the transcription for frozen? *has a diacritic* [fɹoʊzn̩]
9) Are these equivalent [fɹoʊzn̩] [froʊzən]? YES
What’s the difference between [ʌ] [ə] ?
. stress!
• most vowels get reduced to [ə] in unstressed syllables
• between [bitwin] [bətwin] around [əɹaʊnd]phonetics [fontɪks] [fənɾɪks]
. [ʌ] is in stressed syllables bunny [bʌni]
. pumpkin [pʌmpkən] [pʌmpkɪn] assumption [əsʌmptʃən]
What’s the difference between [ə] and [ɨ]?
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Document Summary
We will not be marked on syllabic consonants and aspirations on the assignment. Check the checklist (cid:523)it"ll be ready by tomorrow(cid:524) We have to know the symbols for canadian english. Textbook section 2. 4 and 3. 2, avenue: useful tools for doing linguistics. American english [ah sound], british english [oh backwards c] (toy, boil) Yes stress: most vowels get reduced to [ ] in unstressed syllables, between [bitwin] [b twin] around [ a nd] phonetics [fon(cid:1837)t ks] [f n(cid:1837) ks] [ ] is in stressed syllables bunny [b ni] pumpkin [p mpk n] [p mpk n] assumption [ s mpt n] What"s the difference between [ ] and [ ]? morphological status high in the plural and past: tense endings, mid elsewhere wanted [w nt d] edition [ d n] buses [b s z] escape [ skep] Example: stress on first syllable basil, pencil, hockey. Stress on second syllable collapse, today, before, lapel. Schwa upside down e, it is not stressed.
