LING 2P50 Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: Nasal Release, Laminal Consonant, Bulgarian State Railways
15 Jan 2016
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/phonemic/phonological: level of the main, single letter represented by 2. Aspiration: puff of air from voiceless stops [p, t, k] indicated by [h] raised. Diacritic: an addition to a symbol such as the small raised h. Phonemes (meaningless units of language) contrast with eachother; if we substitute one phoneme for another, we get another word. /phonetic/allophonic: level of the 2 sounds under the main one enclosed. /p/ [ph] / initially in a stressed syllable. [voiceless stop] [aspirated] / initially in a stressed syllable. :the phoneme /p/ becomes aspirated [ph] when it occurs initially in a. Environment: the phonetic context in which the sound occurs. Minimal pair: different words that differ in only one sound. Rules: commonly used to express the relationship between phonemes and allophones stressed syllable. Free variation: two sounds that occur in the same environment without causing a difference in meaning. [p] and [ph] are in free variations and allophones of the same phoneme /p/
