SAR SH 221 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Phonetic Transcription, Phoneme, Syllabic Consonant
19 Mar 2019
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At the end of a word we often have an unaspirated sound. Aspiration happens at the onset position of a word but if you have a stop between two vowels, it might not be aspirated. If it is adjacent to a vowel, it might take on that voicing feature. Example: absurd the s takes on the voiced feature of the ur. This is assimilation: we have a feature that is taken up by a neighboring sound. At the end of a word, a sound that is voiced can become partially devoiced. Allophones are variant phonemes that occur in narrow (detailed) phonetic transcription. Allophones are generated as a result of applying phonological rules to the underlying phonemes. Unlike phonemic variation, allophonic variation is not contrastive (free variation; the meaning does not change given different allophones). Voiced vs voiceless labiovelar glides (w vs wh) Using one allophonic variant of a sound vs another does not change the meaning of a word.
