LING 1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Dissimilation, Allomorph, Great Vowel Shift
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Features articulatory gestures speakers use to create vowels and consonants. Spelling in english is atrocious, and some other languages are too. To express the specific sounds we actually articulate: Unfamiliar symbols because we actually need to know these: Glottal putting lips together lips to teeth tongue to teeth tongue goes near front ceiling tongue goes near top ceiling tongue goes near back ceiling hole in vocal chords (so i was right it sounds like you"re gagging) Affricate hissing sound complex sounds that are combinations of stops and fricatives. [symbol] = tongue height tongue part tongue strength. Actual speech is a stream of discrete units. Segmentation is determined through stress and other cues. Hypothesis: study of sound system or how sounds interact. morpheme that changes in sound but not in meaning. Could also be modified to be: [s] after [t, p, k, , f], etc. Similarly, we apply rules to sounds not in our language.
