LIN100Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Psycholinguistics, Complementary Distribution, Nikolai Trubetzkoy
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Phonology is mainly thinking about sounds, not memorizing sounds. Distributions=how sounds are distributed (environments in which they appear) T and t h to the power of are connected: phonetically similar, never contrastive. In some sense, two segments are similar, yet different! The status of these two levels is different, and we should be able to represent this difference. In the 19th century, phonology was mostly historical. Modern phonological theory starts in the beginning of 20th century with structuralism. Idea: sounds patterns of a language form a system. Major people are ferdinand de saussure, roman jakobson, nikolai trubetzkoy, leonard. If two sounds are in complementary distribution, that does not mean that they are two allophones of the same phoneme. Is a study of the psychological and neurobiological factors that enable. Speech perception is affected by planning and acoustic cues. Even though sounds appear in a sequence, they are often not perceived sequentially. Not all cues of a sound are given together.
