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ANNOUNCEMENT

ANNOUNCEMENT. For Friday: begin Morphology Files 5.1, 5.3-5.4 ASL moved to next Friday. Today. Phonotactics Borrowing and accents Slips of the tongue Readings: 4.6, 9.9. 1. prill 2. skrick 3. blaft 4. rmut 5. thole. 6. lsig 7. tosp 8. mgla 9. dnom 10. flitch.

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ANNOUNCEMENT

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  1. ANNOUNCEMENT • For Friday: • begin Morphology • Files 5.1, 5.3-5.4 • ASL moved to next Friday

  2. Today • Phonotactics • Borrowing and accents • Slips of the tongue Readings: 4.6, 9.9

  3. 1. prill 2. skrick 3. blaft 4. rmut 5. thole 6. lsig 7. tosp 8. mgla 9. dnom 10. flitch Which are impossible English words?

  4. 1. prill 2. skrick 3. blaft 4. rmut 5. thole 6. lsig 7. tosp 8. mgla 9. dnom 10. flitch Which are impossible English words?

  5. Phonotactic constraints • Restrictions on possible sound sequences in different positions of a word • e.g., English allows… • … [tr] at the beginning of a word, but not the end • … [N] in the middle or at the end of a word, but not at the beginning • … up to 3 consonants at the beginning of a word

  6. Accent • When the words of one language are pronounced with rules and phonotactics of another language ‘Foreign Accent Syndrome’ http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/3235934.stm

  7. Borrowing • Words borrowed from a foreign language are (typically) altered to match the native language’s phonotactics

  8. Borrowing • Sound substitution: substitution of an similar sound for a foreign sound that is not in the native phonemic inventory • Ger. Bach [bax] Eng. [bak] • Eng. this [DIs], thing [TIN] Fr. [zis], [siN] • Arabic Al Qaeda [al qaIda] Eng. • [Ql khaId´]

  9. Borrowing • Deletion: elimination of a sound • Greek  Eng... • Ptolemy, mnemonic (but, see amnesia) • Insertion: addition of a sound • Slavic  Eng. • Gdansk [g´dænsk], Tbilisi [th ´bIlIsi] • Eng.  Japanese • beer[biRu], Christmas [kuRisumasu]

  10. Speech errors or ‘Slips of the Tongue’ • Mistakes in a speaker’s linguistic performance • They can provide clues about our linguistic competence

  11. Anticipation • A later sound is anticipated earlier in the utterance • firing of the faculty ( hiring of the faculty) • splacing from a tape (splicing from a tape)

  12. Perseveration • An earlier sound perseveres later in the utterance • phonological fool (phonological rule)

  13. Metathesis • Two sounds (or sound sequences) are switched • Yew Nork ( New York) • budbegs ( bedbugs) • blushing crow ( crushing blow) • blake fruid ( brake fluid)

  14. Slips don’t just involve whole sounds • Lemadon ( Lebanon) • glear plue sky (clear blue sky) • safe-spazing ( space-saving) = nasality = voicing = place

  15. Not everything is possible e.g., ‘slips of the tongue’  • tips of the slung • stips of the lung • lips of the stung  but not …*tlips of the sung

  16. Slips of the tongue… • …obey the rules and phonotactics of the language • Fleudian [S]rip ( Freudian [s]lip) • bird some shot[s] ( shot some bird[z]) • …provide evidence in support of psychological reality of linguistic units • Consonants vs. vowels • Phonetic features

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