CSD-2361 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Free Variation
26 Feb 2018
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Language "symbolic system in which meanings are communicated by speech" Speech "pattern of movements of the speech organs patterns of acoustic vibrations" Dialect " different usage patterns within a language" Speech community "group of people who live within the same geographical boundaries and use the same language" Morpheme "smallest unit of language that carries a semantic interpretation" Phoneme "basic sound segment that has the linguistic function of distinguishing morphemes" Minimal contrast "contrasts between two morphemes that differ in only one sound segment" Minimal pairs "words that differ in only one sound segment which will change the identity of the morpheme" Complementary distribution "say the same phone in two ways because of the phonetic environment, two sounds, but not individual phonemes" (little. Allographs "are different letter sequences or patterns that represent the same sound" roman alphabet has 26 letters, to represent 42 sounds. In terms of consonant location to the vowel. Geminate "sounds occur as part of a pair" (bookkeeper)
