LING 150A1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Ian Maddieson, Phonotactics, Swadesh List
27 Aug 2016
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Ling notes feb 29th and march 2nd: phonotactic grammar continued, english has sp as an onset while spanish does not, phonotactic rules are not, ease of articulation a. i. Though some phonotactic rules serve this: ease of perception b. i. Though some rules serve this: taught in school, driven by spelling d. i. All words in all spoken human languages are exhaustively parsed into syllables e. Lower cased sigma= syllable: cv skeleton, cv= consonant vowel, rat b. i. Two or more consonants is a complex onset/ coda i. j: consonantal peaks- consonants with peaks k. i. [ s k w r l z: 03/02/15, cooing stage, cv, si, core syllable, cvc, swadesh and o, full swadesh list about 200 items, all languages allow cv c. My language requires syllables to have onsets g. ii. Navajo is what kind of syllabic id navajo g. iv. 1. Moderately complex: moderately complex syllable structure languages have a coda but are not required h. i.
