LING 3005 Lecture Notes - Lecture 19: Affix, Voiced Alveolar Fricative, Joule

• School: Carleton University
• Department: Linguistics
• Course: LING 3005
• Professor: Daniel Siddiqi

Document Summary

Correspondence between irregularily and frequency, irregular things more frequent. I(cid:396)(cid:396)egula(cid:396) (cid:449)o(cid:396)ds a(cid:396)e (cid:373)o(cid:396)e f(cid:396)e(cid:395)ue(cid:374)t tha(cid:374) (cid:396)egula(cid:396) (cid:449)o(cid:396)ds. Fo(cid:396) e(cid:454)a(cid:373)ple, the plu(cid:396)al fo(cid:396)(cid:373) of (cid:858)(cid:272)hild,(cid:859) (cid:858)(cid:272)hild(cid:396)e(cid:374)(cid:859) uses a (cid:448)e(cid:396)(cid:455) u(cid:374)(cid:272)o(cid:373)(cid:373)o(cid:374) affi(cid:454), due to the f(cid:396)e(cid:395)ue(cid:374)(cid:272)(cid:455) of the (cid:449)o(cid:396)d (cid:858)(cid:272)hild(cid:396)e(cid:374). (cid:859) the correspondence between irregularity and frequency derives from two forces, economy and contrast. Economy is the force that wishes for messages to be simple and short. Contrast is the force that wants to convey the message clearly and distinctly from other words. In ccvc, if c1 is not /s/ must be liquid or glide. If ccvc, c1 is /s/: words that start with s and theta are legal but really rare, usually borrowings. Onsets: no egma, no /h/ or /cha/ or /dga, everything true of ccvc must be true of cccvc. If /m/ or engma, c2 is homorganic voiceless stop. In 3 or more, every 2 segments must be legal.