DANCEST 805 Lecture Notes - Lecture 19: Componential Analysis, Endocentric And Exocentric, Affix
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Levels of linguistic description: morphology, syntax, semantics, pragmatics, describes language at two levels of abstraction: form & function symbol. Graphemes (letters) (actually sound spoken: phonetics: science of the articulation & reception of human speech sounds, not restricted to a. #3 phonetics & phonology i particular language: phonology: study of sounds as they operate in the system of a specific language, phone: any individual sound, phoneme: any meaningful distinctive sound in a language, allophone: variant of a phoneme. Phonology: levels of description individual sounds: suprasegmental phonology: description of speech sounds in terms of prosodic features like intonation & stress (i. e. level of prosody) Scottish english: complementary distribution: each allophone is used in a different phonetic context in rp) [l] ( clear l") e. g. light, bliss occurs before vowels & /j/ ( dark l") e. g. milk, ball occurs before other consonants & word--finally.
