LING 355 Lecture Notes - Lecture 34: Null-Subject Language, Grammaticality, Phoneme
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The exam is partly cumulative there is more weight on the second part of the course but we still need to know material from the first part of the course. In all three languages, /p/ and /f/ are separate phonemes (contrasting on. In chinese and japanese, [l] and [r] are allophones of the same phoneme. In other words, they are not separate phonemes. In english, /l/ and /r/ are separate phonemes (contrasting on coronal). In japanese, coronal is never a contrastive feature, in chinese it is, for other phonemes (but not /l/ and /r/). Feature contrasts between english, japanese and chinese and predictions for l2 acquisition, with respect to ability to perceive the contrasts. Pictures representing words which are minimal pairs (e. g. a rock and a lock). Subjects hear a verbal cue (rock or lock) and have to indicate which picture the word corresponds to. The feature that makes the contrast is used elsewhere in chinese.
