01:615:315 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Nasal Consonant, Minimal Pair, Complementary Distribution
29 Sep 2016
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We reviewed where we ended last lecture and proceeded to follow through the phoneme. Allophones arise because phonemes tend to change depending on the context in which they are in. In reviewing a paradigm depicting the variants of /p/, /t/, and /k/, we find that it shows that in english, they are all voiceless stops (excluding the bilabial and alveolar consonants). These each have three variants: these sounds cannot contrast because they cannot be found in the same context at the same time. Therefore, they are called allophones of a phoneme. There are two contexts in which sounds can contrast in: We accept it because it is usually sounds adjacent to the sound in question that affect it, not sounds at other ends of word. When you cannot find a minimal pair that targets sounds in identical contexts, continue your analysis by searching for analogous/similar contexts.
