LIGN 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Complementary Distribution, Contrastive Distribution, Phoneme
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What is phonology: note on notation, we"re going to start differentiating words in ipa between // and [, /tap/ means top" at an abstract level. [p ks: but, *[k ds, should be [k dz, *[k ss, should be [k s z, wait. So clearly the plural marker is more than just add an s": there are several versions, or allomorphs , of the plural marker. English: phonology, phonology is the study of how sounds pattern in language and languages, what do phonologists study, within-language phonological questions, what sounds differentiate different words? (phonemic analysis) And what do speakers hear as being the same sound or different: how do speakers tend to group sounds together? (natural. Classes: how do sounds change when combined together? (phonological. Alternations: what combinations are legal in the language? (phonotactics, how are syllables formed and what kinds of syllables does the language prefer? (syllable structure, how do we assign stress, pitch, and emphasis? (metrical.
