EN372 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Bede, Guilt Trip, Holy Land
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4 qs- 1 film, 1 ch. 1, 1 ch. 2, 1 from today. No because each letter or combination of them has a different pronunciation: fish spelled ghoti. Written language is permanent in the sense that it is fixed on a piece of paper. A system in which each symbol represents only 1 sound, and each sound is represented by only 1 symbol. Although something is written the same way it may be pronounced differently. Grapheme- the smallest contrastive unit in a writing system. Phonemes- a phoneme is the smallest structural unit of sound that distinguishes meaning in a language: focus on two words distinguished by a single sound to create a minimal pair. Allophones- a predictable . : do not make a difference in meaning. Minimal pair- pairs of words in a particular language that differ in only one phonological element and have distinct meanings. Speech- an adaptation of the respiratory system for the purposes of communication.
