LIN 1300 Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: Nasal Consonant, Contrastive Distribution, Complementary Distribution

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Linguistics
• Course: LIN 1300
• Professor: Laura Kastronic

Document Summary

How sounds are organized within language and how they interact; abstract sound system in mind. Restrictions on sound types/sound sequences possible in different positions in a word (esp beginning/end) Phonetic inventories: sounds produced as part of the language; different for every language. Syllable types: usually c (consonant) + v (vowel) Phonotactic constraints and differences in phonetic inventories is cause of this. Sound substitution: using sounds from native language to replace non-native sounds of non-native words. Set of sounds perceived to be variants of same sound (labelled with / /) Abstract, how sounds are stored in brain (psychological) Member of phoneme set (labelled with [ ]) Non-co(cid:374)trasti(cid:448)e: i(cid:374)tercha(cid:374)gi(cid:374)g 2 (cid:858)sa(cid:373)e(cid:859) sou(cid:374)ds does(cid:374)(cid:859)t cha(cid:374)ge (cid:373)ea(cid:374)i(cid:374)g. Whether sounds are allophones of one phoneme or allophones of different phonemes. Set of phonetic environments (sounds before/after particular sound) in which a sound occurs. Minimal pair: 2 words w pronunciation differing in 1 sound; used to determine contrastive. Overlappping distribution: occur in the same phonetic environment.