LIN229H1 Lecture : Notes taken during lecture

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Inventory: some segments more common than others. Can determine a typology of the language, to see what is natural and what is not. Some segments very common across languages: other segments much rarer, markedness: pattern or segment is very common, then unmarked. cccccvvcc is marked = uncommon, unnatural, rare. not a either or choice but a scale. Implicational relation: with have oral vowels, not sure if nasal vowels are there or not, with nasal vowels, know that oral vowels also in inventory. Languages have secondary articulation: rounding most common; then palatalization. Fricatives also there, but can be absent in some australian languages. [i u a] are more marked than [i e a o u] In turkish, has backness and roundness harmony simultaneously: no lowering so height stays constant, assimilation occurs across consonants, but not across vowels. In kuria: prefixes do not change height. then when see variance in high and mid, assume mid underlying.

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