01:615:315 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Universal Property, Phoneme, Code-Switching
11 Nov 2016
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We want to examine how the brain groups segments together to better understand the cognitive structure of the human brain when it comes to language. There is a sort of nesting that occurs in the hierarchy of structures i. e. - a phoneme joins to another phoneme to make a segment. The syllable in linguistics is different from the traditional grammar"s understanding of a syllable. The syllable is not the smallest unit of organization. A syllable can be broken down into onset, nucleus, and coda. = (onset) + nucleus + (coda) Vowels are universally found in the nucleus. First, we must transcribe the word with ipa. Then, we find the vowels: these are automatically nuclei. Then we must figure out what position the rest of the phonemes are in. Not an onset because there would be no nucleus after it to make a syllable. Not a coda because it would have no nucleus preceding it to make a syllable.
