LINGUIST 1A03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Minimal Pair, Complementary Distribution, Underlying Representation

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

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Vowel length in english: there are i(cid:374)sta(cid:374)(cid:272)es of shorter (cid:448)o(cid:449)el le(cid:374)gth i(cid:374) fro(cid:374)t of (cid:448)oi(cid:272)ed o(cid:271)strue(cid:374)t"s i(cid:374) fro(cid:374)t of multi syllabic words. In english we can have syllables that consist of only a vowel: when something is optional it is in brackets, english allows consonant clusters, there is a lot of variety in terms of english syllable structure. Syllable patterns in hawaii: syllable has a vowel by itself or a consonant that must be followed by a vowel, a syllable can contain a vowel or a vowel consonant. Building syllable structure: first you find the nucleus of a structure, find the nucleus of each syllable. Identify and label the nucleus level, then label the rhyme level, then label the syllable label: now look for onsets, figure out what to the left is the onset. Allophones, what environment: vowels are only being le(cid:374)gthe(cid:374)ed (cid:271)y (cid:448)oi(cid:272)ed o(cid:271)strue(cid:374)t"s i(cid:374) the (cid:272)oda. Phonological learning: phonology is a component of our mental grammar.