LING 1001 Lecture Notes - Sign Language, Handshape, Cvcc

• School: Carleton University
• Department: Linguistics
• Course: LING 1001
• Professor: Karin Nault

Document Summary

The study of distribution of sounds in a language. How sounds are organized and used in natural languages. the interactions between those different sounds. Phonetics: basis for phonological analysis, analyzes the production of all human speech sounds (regardless of language) Basis for further work in morphology, syntax, discourse, etc. Analyzes the sound patterns of a particular language: determining which phonetic sounds are significant, explaining how these sounds are interpreted (by the native speaker) The smallest contrastive unit in the sound system of a language: american structuralist tradition: Phoneme is defined according to its allophones and environments: generative tradition, phoneme is defined by a set of distinctive features. Components of generative phonology: phonetic representations are assigned to utterances. Psychology (starts with /s/: possible words, restrictions on what c and v patterns go together to making up syllables and words, restrictions differ from one language to the other (ex. French and english: restrictions can be formulated in rules.