LING 001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Final-Obstruent Devoicing, Bound And Unbound Morphemes, Subcategorization
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We try to describe phenomena using as few rules as we can. Find similarities in features and make a generalized rule out of it. # = word boundary (word initial # _, or word final _#) Or example with wishes you need to apply (1) vowel insertion and then (2) devoicing, instead of in the opposite order so that it becomes an actual word. Rules generally operate at level of some broader phonetic class. Phonetic classes = sounds that share some general property. Obstruents (non nasal stops, affricates, fricatives) vs sonorants (everything else) Sibilants: fricatives and affricates involving the tongue and the upper teeth and palatoalveolar region. Phonological rules that apply to /z/ plural apply to other /z/ morphemes too. When put together in the right way, phonemes syllables morphemes. When morphemes are put together in the right way, they form words. Syllables are a level of structure above the segment (suprasegmental):
