LINA01H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Complementary Distribution, Contrastive Distribution, Tx1
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: a set of sounds that shares one or more features: sets of sounds that are similar often pattern together in a language, rules of languages often apply to natural classes of sounds, ex. Sounds with the same features in the same row. [p,t,k] all voiceless stops: this is their natural class. [i, , e, , ae] unrounded front vowels. Noncontinuants: stops (oral & nasal): obstructed airflow in the oral cavity. Continuants: continuous stream of airflow out of the mouth (all other consonants & vowels) Obstruents: stops, fricatives, affricates: airstream fully or partially obstructed. Sonorants: nasals, liquids, glides: relatively free airflow, great acoustic energy, more sonorous. Coronals: alveolars, alveopalatals, palatals: blade of tongue contacting alveolar ridge or hard palate. Anteriors: bilabials, labiodentals, interdentals, alveolars; produced at front of mouth. Note: a natural class must apply to all/only the sounds it describes. Recall phonetics: the study of the physical properties of sound.
