LINA01H3 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Linguistic Performance, Syllabic Consonant, Phoneme
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-linguist"s goal: build a model of the mental grammar. System that underlies the speaker"s use of the language --- systematic. Arbitrary signs + rules for combination --- productivity (creativity) limit by rules. -mental lexicon: dictionary stored in the speaker"s head. Symbolic ( = conventional = arbitrary): form not directly represent meaning. -grammatical: what native speaker of the language will say. Phonetics: study of physical properties of speech sound. Phonology: study of mental representation of speech sound. Allows one-to-one correspondence between a symbol and a sound. Allow one system to represent similar and different sounds of all human language. Voiced or voiceless (voicing) --- vocal fold vibrate. Puff of air or period of voicelessness after a stop. Dipthong a vowel and a glide (aj/ aw/ oj) Be the nucleus--- in english only liquids and nasals. -natural classes: sets of sounds which pattern together--- share one or more feature (rules often apply to natural class)
