LING477 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Phonological Rule, Allophone, Phonotactics

• School: University of Delaware
• Department: Linguistics
• Course: LING477
• Professor: Yaping Tsai

Document Summary

Orthography stimulus pronunciation (grapheme/letter phoneme phone mapping) Pronunciation stimulus orthography (phone phoneme grapheme/letter) Patterns of sounds in a language (sound categories, phonotactics) Functions of sounds in a language (phonemic or allophonic?) Influences of sounds on other sounds (ex. assimilation) The pronunciations of a phoneme is called a phone. When a phoneme has more than one pronunciation, we say a phoneme has allophones. The pronunciations of different phonemes are called contrastive or distinct sounds. The rules that account for the distribution of the allophones are called phonological rules. Voicing of stops is a distinctive feature in english. Aspiration of stops is not a distinctive feature in english. Aspiration is a distinctive feature in korean. Individual languages decide how they will make use of the articulatory/phonetic features that are made available by the apparatus of our species vocal tract. When a phonetic feature is predictable by a rule it is a nondistinctive/predictable feature.