LING 1101 Lecture 7: Notes
8 Feb 2017
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Basic set of sounds that native speakers pay attention to - phonemes. Hebrew - abjad (a writing system without vowels) Except when the adjective ends in /n/, /o/, /u/, /l/ etc. to an adjective, to make it into a verb. The constraint: does not apply when the adjective ends in a syllabic consonant or a vowel (not quite, but almost) /t/, /k/, /d/, / /, /s/ attaches after: does not attach after: Natural class of sonorants (sounds you can sing") Articulatory: segments produced with a relatively open passage for the airflow . Phoneme is /p/ the allophones are [p] and [b] Between sonorants the phoneme /p/ is pronounced as [b] Almost all writing systems written by native speakers are phonemic. When foreigners come up with writing systems, it doesn"t work that way. Worried about how foreigners would think about it.
