LINGUIST 1A03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Minimal Pair, Phoneme, Velar Nasal
24 Jun 2018
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Lecture Six
What’s up?
. Midterm scores released Thursday
. Assignment 2 released Thursday (it will be due June 1, 2018)
Today’s Goals
. Recognize articulatory processes in speech
. Consider some properties of Suprasegmental information
Questions:
1) How do you pronounce think anticipatory assimilation (option B- with the [ng]
velar nasal because it has to be similar to the velar [k] coming next)
2) What kind of assimilation happens in crown? (The r is devoiced) perseveratory
assimilation, the aspirated [k] sound sticks around and makes the [r] sound
devoiced
3) What kind of assimilation happen in can anticipatory assimilation of the [n] at
the end of the word—the [ae] is nasalized
Diacritics we’ve seen so far
syllabic [n]̩
rhotic [ ]ɚ
unreleased [t̚]
aspirated [th]
nasalized [õ]
devoiced [ ] [i] (dot goes below sound) ɹ ̥ ̥
Suprasegmental information
. Sound information that is “above” the level of individual speech segments
. Perceived in relation to other components of the utterance
. Pitch or loudness in relation to other part of utterance
Pitch: Tone
. When the tone of a word changes the meaning of it
. Lexical tone: differences in pitch lead to the differences in word meanings
. Lexicon: your mental vocabulary
Ex) Mandarin is a lexical language
. English uses pitch but doesn’t have lexical tone
. English has intonation
. Ex) Fuck,
. STRESS: suprasegmental/ stress differences perfect/ perfect, read/ read,
permit/permit, record/record
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Document Summary
Assignment 2 released thursday (it will be due june 1, 2018) Diacritics we"ve seen so far syllabic [n] rhotic [ unreleased [t h aspirated [t nasalized [ ] devoiced [ ] [i] (dot goes below sound) Sound information that is above the level of individual speech segments. Perceived in relation to other components of the utterance. Pitch or loudness in relation to other part of utterance. When the tone of a word changes the meaning of it. Lexical tone: differences in pitch lead to the differences in word meanings. English uses pitch but doesn"t have lexical tone. Stress: suprasegmental/ stress differences perfect/ perfect, read/ read, permit/permit, record/record. Examples of intonation: pitch of names, questions (rising at the end), and sarcasm. Intonation: differences in pitch can signal discourse- level information. In english the length of the vowel doesn"t change the meaning of the word. Some phonetic differences are meaningful and some are not!
