Linguistics 2248A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Phonological Rule, Tswana Language, Coarticulation
26 Jan 2018
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Phonology studies this interpretation system and investigates the principles governing the sound systems. Phoneme is a mental reality, as the intention of the speaker or the impression of the hearer. You might say one but there are 5 or 6. (daniel jones, 1918) Phoneme is a head term of a family of speech sounds. Phoneme is the sum of the phonologically relevant properties of a sound. Phoneme is a minimal unit that can distinguish meanings. Phoneme plays a function: to contrast with other words. Not true to say that a phoneme is a sound (allophone), or even a class of sounds. Phonemes are conventions shared by the speech community but vary between speech communities. A discrete unit that keeps lexical items apart. A sum of phonetic properties that all together constitute an indivisible unit. An abstract phonological unit that serves as a reference model for a set of speech sounds related to each other.
