LING 1101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Cvcc, Katakana, Phoneme
10 Feb 2017
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Next week - good time for a quiz. Phonotactic constraints (like rules of suffixation of -en. Writing systems - encode phonemes of a language. Allophones = variants of a phoneme in specific contexts. English: phoneme /p/ allophones [p h ] [p] (phonemic & phonological - used interchangeably) 3 separate writing system inventions in the world. 1st: roman alphabet (also hieroglyphics) from system sumerian. Sumer = oldest civilization in the middle east. Completely disappeared from the face of the earth. Writing starts morphographic often ends up becoming phonemic. No evidence that it was influenced by anything in the middle east. Can be done when the language has a simple syllable structure. Japanese only has 3 types of syllables: cv, cv+n, cv + . Much clumsier to have a separate graph for each syllable. - [li. l ], [ li. tl ] are the same word [litl ] - [b n ] and [b tn ] are the same word.
