LINA01H3 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Dissimilation, Diphthong, Minimal Pair
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Creativity (productivity): ability to understand and create new sentences that you"ve never heard of but it is rule governed (constrained by mental rules of language + grammar rules). Language is unlimited because you can make numerous sentences. Languages are limited because the sentences need to make sense. Linguistic competence: unconscious knowledge of a speaker"s language which allows them to make and understand sentences. Prescriptive: tells you not to do something. For example, the following sentence is not grammatical . They just say whether a sentence is grammatical or not. Major classifications of speech sounds: consonants, vowels. Glides are considered as consonants even though they are articulated as a vowel. Voiced sounds are produced when the vocal folds vibrate inside of the vocal tract. Classification of vowels: tongue body height (high, mid, low, tongue body backness/frontness (front, central, back, lip rounding, tenseness, monophthong or diphthong. Natural classes: obstruents, sonorants, coronals, anteriors, sibilants. Phonological processes: assimilation (nasalization, dissimilation, epenthesis, metathesis, deletion.
