LIN200H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Labial Consonant, Complementary Distribution, Free Variation
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Lecture 3 phonology-rules of how sounds are combined in a language: phoneme vs. allophones. Two sounds are separate phonemes if you can find a minimal pair, e. g. /p/ and. Two sounds are allophones if they are in complementary distribution or if they are in free variation, e. g. [p] and [ph: some rules of assimilation in english. Vowel nasalization: a vowel becomes nasalized when it precedes a nasal consonant (m, n, , /a, e, i, o, u/-> Alveolar nasal assimilation impossible: assimilation of the place of articulation of the nasal to the following labial consonant. Alveolar stop assimilation: assimilation of place articulation of the nasal to the following consonants. Voicing assimilation: /s/follows voiceless sounds, /z/ follows voiced sounds and / z/ follows sibilants. Al turns into ar when there is a proceeding l insertion rules athlete []something. Fricatives often delete when followed by another fricative meta: canadian raising. Before voiceless sounds [aw] becomes [ w], and [ay] becomes [ y]
