LIN 1300 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Complementary Distribution, Phonotactics, Rade People

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Linguistics
• Course: LIN 1300
• Professor: Laura Michelle Kastronic

Document Summary

Phonetics is the study of speech sounds as physical entities: how they are produced in the vocal tract, what their articulatory and acoustic properties are, and how they are interpreted. Phonology is the study of how sounds are organized within a language and how they interact with each other. What is the organization of sounds are organized within a language and how they interact with each other. In other words, phonetics: deals with the physical properties of the sounds. Phonology: uncovers the abstract sound system that governs the mind of a speaker. You are playing scrabble and you get a rack of 7 letters: iobuzrp. Your job is to arrange them in such a way that you can spell an english word. You know that if you make a 4-letter word with z in the beginning, you can score double points for the z! You might look at the combinations: zoip, zurp, zoub, zoib, zirb,