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Phonology

Phonology. What is phonology?. The descriptions of the patterns of speech sounds in a language. Phonemes. Meaning-distinguishing sounds in a language Abstract unit or sound type Such as /v/ and /p/. Phones and allophones. /t/ Tar / tʰ ar / [ tʰ ] phone

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Phonology

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  1. Phonology

  2. What is phonology? • The descriptions of the patterns of speech sounds in a language

  3. Phonemes • Meaning-distinguishing sounds in a language • Abstract unit or sound type • Such as /v/ and /p/

  4. Phones and allophones • /t/ • Tar /tʰar/ [tʰ] phone • Writer /reiɾər/ [ɾ] phone • Eighth /eitθ/ [t] phone • All of them are allophones to the phoneme /t/

  5. Minimal pairs and sets • assist assessed cinder sender innovate enervate listening lessening livid levied middle medal sickened second symmetry cemetery • http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/wordscape/wordlist/

  6. Phonotactics • Permitted arrangement of sounds • Fgvin • Kjbfant • Drting • What’s wrong with the above words?

  7. Syllables and clusters • The following can occur as the onset: • All single consonant phonemes except /ŋ/   Plosive plus approximant other than /j/: /pl/, /bl/, /kl/, /ɡl/,/pr/, /br/, /tr/,[1]/dr/,[1]/kr/, /ɡr/,/tw/, /dw/, /ɡw/, /kw/ • play, blood, clean, glove, prize, bring, tree,[1] dream,[1] crowd, green, twin, dwarf, language, quick Voiceless fricative plus approximant other than /j/: /fl/, /sl/,/fr/, /θr/, /ʃr/,/sw/, /θw/, /hw/ • floor, sleep, friend, three, shrimp, swing, thwart, which Consonant plus /j/: /pj/, /bj/, /tj/, /dj/, /kj/, /ɡj/,/mj/, /nj/, /fj/, /vj/, /θj/,/sj/, /zj/, /hj/, /lj/ • pure, beautiful, tube, during, cute, argue, music, new, few, view, thew, suit, Zeus, huge, lurid /s/ plus voiceless plosive:[3]/sp/, /st/, /sk/ speak, stop, skill /s/ plus nasal:[3]/sm/, /sn/ smile, snow /s/ plus voiceless plosive plus approximant:[3][4]/spl/,/spr/, /str/, /skr/,/skw/, /smj/, /spj/, /stj/, /skj/ • split, spring, street, scream, square, smew, spew, student, skewer

  8. Co-articulation effects • Assimilation • I can go • Elision • You and me

  9. Assignment • http://www.azlifa.com/wp-content/uploads/pp-quiz-2answers.pdf • http://www.scribd.com/doc/7920057/Phonology-Exercises • http://www.mta.ca/faculty/arts/mll/linguistics/exercises/index.html • http://ifa.amu.edu.pl/~wjarek/euefs/Phon_Transcription_ex_1.pdf

  10. http://research.haifa.ac.il/~nancyh/finalA-answers.pdf

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