LING 201 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Close Vowel, Phoneme, Complementary Distribution
23 Oct 2016
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Assignment regarding creating fake brand names and initiating a survey between 3. 10/17/16 people is due this week on wednesday. When identifying whether or not a sounds is an allophone vs a phoneme would be to isolate and list the environments surrounding the word. If the environments are complementary, that means there is no overlap between them: think of complementary colors, red and green are opposite and therefore complementary. English native speakers are more likely to pronounce a vowel before a voiced consonant long (long vowels are indicated by a : mark) For example, even with nonsense words: sploot, sploo:d. English speakers are more likely to elongate the /u/ in splood than in sploot. These are not in complementary distribution because some pairs are the same. However, if we take away all environments that are not associated with a high vowel, then it is apparent that they are in complementary distribution.
