LING477 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Consonant Cluster, Phoneme, Minimal Pair
24 Sep 2017
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Words with one syllable are monosyllabic, while words with more than one syllable are polysyllabic. Minimally contains the nucleus or peak, which is usually a vowel. The segments preceding the nucleus are called onset. The segments following the nucleus are coda. A string of more than one consonant in the onset or coda is called a consonant cluster. A native speaker"s knowledge of english sound system include. Knowledge of the phoneme inventory (which sounds are and are not used in. Every language has a limited set of phonemes, and the (native) words in the language consist only of phonemes of the language. Language vary in the number of phonemes they have. Phonemes are organized into different categories called natural classes, according to their phonetic features. The number of physically, mechanically different sounds in a language doesn"t. Instead, a language speaker has the grammar/rules of forming sentences necessarily correlate to the number of phonemes.
