COGS 200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Inherent Vowel, Syllabary, Grapheme
5 Dec 2017
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Typographical conventions italics = reference to a word, in general. Ex: the word i want to talk about is pair. / / = broad(abstract) notation of speech units /pe /. (this represents the sound category in the mind) [ ] = narrow(concrete) notation of speech sounds. Example: in english, the written forms and. Phoneme: a contrastive unit of human speech generally represented by a single letter in languages like english. For example, contrasts with since is pronounced differently that . in italics does not contrast with . Contrastive: such that replacement of one element with another results in a different pronunciation or meaning. Grapheme with another, you either spell a new word or create a nonword. and are contrastive, and are contrastive because they create a sound difference and a meaning difference. Digraph: two graphemes, that when combined are pronounced as a single sound.
