LIN 401 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Sociolinguistics, Obstruent, Dialectology
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All language rules only change things within one type of context. A sound becomes more like one near it. Two sounds near each other get less alike. Place assimilation - assimilation of place in articulation. A sound gets deleted under certain circumstances. Phonological unit larger than a single phoneme. The only necessary part of the syllable. All vowels are nuclei; words need vowels. A sound gets inserted under certain circumstances. Consonants that can be nuclei (/r/, /l/, /n/, /m/) Recipe for a syllable (optional = brackets) Two consonants in a cluster share a place of. Most onset clusters have to consist of one obstruent (oral stop, Ways of speaking a language that are associated with particular. Sonority increase fricative, or affricate) and then one sonorant (vowel like consonant, with minimal or no friction). Lines dividing areas with different predominant words/pronunciations for. Modern and quantitative; takes into account social and linguistic. People sound like the people they grew up with.
