Anthropology 1027A/B Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: Dental Consonant, Minimal Pair, Complementary Distribution

• School: Western University
• Department: Anthropology
• Course: Anthropology 1027A/B
• Professor: Tania Granadillo

Document Summary

Phonology: a language"s selection from the range of all possible speech sounds organized into a system of contrasts and patterns. The relationships among individual speech sounds, or segments. How sounds are organized into syllables; units of phonological organization that are crucial to the patterning of sounds. Features, the articulatory and acoustic building blocks of sounds that are also crucial to understanding why sound systems have the particular contrasts and patterns they do. Speakers make hundreds phonetic distinctions as they use their language. The difference between [n] and [ ] in words like win. The difference between [n] (alveolar) and [n(cid:479)] (dental) [w n(cid:479)] meaning of the word is unchanged (unlike [w n] and [w ]) so it goes unnoticed. has a dental pronunciation before another dental consonant but the. Phonemes: contrastive units of a language"s sound organized based on phonetic properties of the sounds and whether those properties can be used to distinguish between words.