PSYC 3290 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Phoneme
3 Mar 2016
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Let"s start by considering the following analogy: your personality is an abstract concept and the way it is manifested in everyday life is through behaviours that are dependent on the circumstances of your life. Similarly, think of phonemes as abstract categories that can have multiple actual pronunciations, depending on the surrounding sounds in a particular word. "phone" is just the general word for a speech sound. "phoneme" is a more theoretical abstraction, you can think of it as a sound category. /r/ and /b/ are different phonemes in english). In the example we discussed in class, to-too-two: it is important to remember that neither "phone" nor "phoneme" has anything to do with writing, so the fact that to, too and two are all written differently is irrelevant. And here is another example that should make things very clear: think of "right" vs. "ride".
