LINGUIST 201 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Cockney, Complementary Distribution, Moodle
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When two different forms are identical in every way except for one sound segment that occurs in the same place in the words, the two words are called minimal pairs. Near minimal pairs add a new sound instead of replacing one sound for another. When a phonetic feature is distinctive, we see that the [ + ] value of that feature contrasts with the [ - ] value of that feature. In some cases, changes in features do not lead to changes in meaning. Nasality in vowels is distinctive for english. When two or more sounds never occur in the same phonetic context or environment, they are said to be in complementary distribution: *the rest of this document will be in the handouts folder on moodle* Morphology is the study of the internal structure of words and rules by which words are. Concerned with delimiting types of morphological rules in natural languages.
