Anthropology 1027A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Contrastive Distribution, Joule, Kaon

• School: Western University
• Department: Anthropology
• Course: Anthropology 1027A/B
• Professor: Kinga Pozniak

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Mat vs. pat vs. bat phonemes and allophones: allophones: the different realizations of a phoneme, /p/ has more than one allophone in english: eg: consider spit vs. pit, phonemic transcription: /sp t/ and /p t: phonetic transcription: h t] . [sp t] and [p native speakers don"t always see this because they do it naturally: theses are called phonetic transcription. Phonemes vs. allophones: examples, english: [p] and [ph] are allophones of /p/ spy [sp pie [p, thai: [p] and [ph] are different phonemes /p/ /ph/ [p] and [ph: different phonemes (changes the meaning of the word, sounds that are found in the same environment, contrastive distribution. If you substitute one for the other it changes the meaning: e. g. Minimal pairs: the two words have different meanings, the words have the same number of sounds, only one sound is different, the sound that is different is in the same place in both words.