PSY374H5 Lecture Notes - Noam Chomsky, 18 Months, Transformational Grammar
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Phonemes have distinctive features: a characteristic of speech sound whose presence or i. e. feature of voicing or vibrating vocal chords in /b/ but not /p/; bilabial, sound absence distinguishes the sound from other sounds. articulated at lip and stopped lung airflow in /b/ vs /f/. include that a word cannot being with 2 stop consonant (p,t,b,g,d,k) or at the beginning of a word, voiceless stop consonants are aspirated. when they differ in only 1 distinctive feature (bilabial) e. g. , da" mistaken for ba" but not fa". The entire sequence of rules that produces the sentence is called its derivation. sometimes more than one distinct phrase structure can be derived. In the same sentences, where the assignment of words to constituents is ambiguous, Asl signs have an increasing arbitrariness, home was first eat and sleep, now it is. In spoken language, words are arbitrary as no relationship exists between set of sounds.
