Anthropology 1027A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Radon, Maton, Contrastive Distribution

• School: Western University
• Department: Anthropology
• Course: Anthropology 1027A/B
• Professor: Tania Granadillo

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Above the segment, able to affect more than one segment. Any word that is more than one syllable tends to have one stressed (emphasized) syllable. The stressed syllable is found by playing with the word, and finding which stressed syllable sounds natural. Tone is within a syllable while intonation is used on longer stretches of speech. A distinct speech sound in a particular language. Study of production and description of speech sounds. Study of patterning of meaningful sounds in a particular language. Allophones: the different realizations of a phoneme. /p/ has at least three different realizations (allophones) in english: In the same place in both words. Conclusion: /p/, /b/, /m/, /s/, /n/, and /g/ are phonemes in english. Speech sound distinct from other sounds in the language. An allophone is a version of that phoneme which is always found in a particular environment. English: [p] and [p h ] are allophones of /p/