LING 1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Contrastive Distribution, Phoneme, Complementary Distribution
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How they are represented in ipa (few dozen features needed to describe every sound in the human language. Phonology : how speech sounds are organized in different languages. Linguistic knowledge a speaker has of the sound patterns that are possible in a language. Which sounds are predictable (based on the environment) and which sounds are. What is the phonetic context (environment) which allows us to predict the. Sibilants : sounds that have a buzzing, hissy quality. In english, have [s] and [ ] in sound inventories > can we predict where we will get [s] and. Minimal pair : when two words differ by only one sound. Sheep [ ip] which of the two sounds the words started with. Because [s] cannot appear before [i] > if there is an [i], it will be preceded by a [ ] and cannot be an [s]
