Linguistics 1028A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Sonorant, Front Vowel, Continuant

• School: Western University
• Department: Linguistics
• Course: Linguistics 1028A/B
• Professor: Stephanie Kelly

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What distinguished these phonemes of english: / t d; p b; k g/ And these: / m n / Both share [-voice] t = [-continuant] t = [+continuant] (because it"s an affricate) : [voice] k : g [voice] p : f [cont. ] : [reduced] u : [tense] s : [strident] i : e [high] e : [tense] : m [nasal] u : o [high] s : [anterior] i : [tense] Processes with which you may already be familiar with may be described as rules and features. The feature of voicing can undergo assimilation. The group of sounds / p l t r / are produced voicelessly. It"s regressive because the assimilation taking place is voicing. The feature of voicing is shared between the two consonants. A voiced consonant is taking the voicing of the sound before it. / l r / are usually voiced, but they take on the voiceless sound of / p t / which come.