LING 201 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Complementary Distribution, Canadian Raising, Phoneme
9 Oct 2016
School
Department
Course
Professor
Document Summary
You have to look at it phonetically, transcribed not pronounced. Complementary distribution: 2 or more sounds occur in non- overlapping mututally exlusive environment. Phoneme: a class of phonetically similar sounds that do not contrast with each other. Allophones- phonetic sounds that make up a phoneme. /l/ : goes into [l~] after back vowels or before velar and [l] elsewhere. Near min pair:2 words that contain differences other than the one involving the key contrast diff must not involve sounds right next to the key contrast d3 ~ 3 ledger, treasure. Canadian raising review theres more voiced sounds in english than voiceless pic. Solving phonology problems you look at where does the velar l occur. If you can for sure know where the shwa came from then you can put it . in a case like canada , we can put the a instead of shwa phonemic doesn"t have it. Nucleus : vowel or a syllabic nasal or liquid.
