LIN 1300 Chapter 3: Phonology Textbook Notes
10 Nov 2016
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Phonology has to do with the study of speech sounds. Phonology is the study of how sounds are organized within a language and how they interact with each other. We know that languages sound different from each other. This is due to differences in their phonetic inventories (sounds that are. Languages can sound quite different from each other even when their phonetic produced as part of the language) and suprasegmental features. inventories are very similar. Often due to differences in the rules governing which sound sequences are possible in a language and which are not. These restrictions on possible combinations of sounds are known as phonotactic constraints. Which consonants are permitted at the beginning of a word, nothing that any consonant of english may occur word-initially except for these two: No native english word begins with them. A large number of two-consonant combinations also occur word-initially with a stop or fricative being following by a liquid or glide:
