Anthropology 1027A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Canadian Raising, Sibilant, Complementary Distribution
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Types of phonological rules: assimilation: sounds become similar in terms of, place, manner, voicing e. g. nasalization: nasals influence surrounding sounds. Latin derivational suffix alis: when added to a noun that contained the liquid l , became aris , imported into english as suffixes al or ar . Insertion: add a sound (rarer then ^: vowel insertion: english: a short unstressed vowel [ ] is inserted if a consonant cluster is difficult/impossible, e. g. dmitri: consonant insertion: often in anticipation of upcoming sound: Kinda like a bridge of the two sounds: it uses something in common with both letter b4 and after: deletion: delete a sound, in fast speech, many english speakers delete an unstressed syllable. Memory : [m m i] > [m m i] i] > [m st i] D is seen as weaker: butter vs. buder. * relative strength: aspirated stop>unaspirated stop>flap>glottal stop or fricative, stop>fricative>glottal stop, voiceless>voiced.