LING 1101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Great Vowel Shift, Cardinal Vowels, Tenseness
6 Feb 2017
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Syllabic consonants - consonants that can be a syllable by themselves (4 in english) Vowels are more difficult - spelling tends to change. In german, the word for beet has a long a. Black death - more people in countryside took over, had weird spelling. Mary, merry, marry - pronouncing the vowels differently. [i] [u] a lot of languages have these. Cardinal vowels - the ones on the corners. [i] [ ] distinction - a lot more tension with [ ] then with [i] Languages in nw america and siberia, have contrast between tense and not tense vowels. There are conventions about how to write these. The front vowels in english are always unrounded, but the vowels in the back are rounded. English way: starts with /ti/ then end with /u/ (because we don"t have a rounded front vowel. Some languages have very small number of small sounds. Austronesian languages - tend to have few sounds.
