LINGUIST 1A03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Dissimilation, Vocal Folds, Vowel Reduction
4 Oct 2016
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Class 5a suprasegmentals & contrast - phonetics/phonology. Processes: articulatory adjustments that occur during the production of connected speech. Assimilation: sounds becoming more similar to each other o. If there"s a nasal sound in coda, nucleus gets nasalized o. If a liquid is in onset of syllable following voiceless stop, then it gets devoiced o. Flapping: dental/alveolar stop articulation changes to a flap articulation. Dissimilation: sounds becoming less alike, resulting sequence of sounds is easier to articulate/understand (ex. the word "fifths", many dissimilate the final [f s] to [fts]) Vowel reduction: common process in rapid natural speech, vowel in unstressed syllable gets reduced to the schwa (upside down e) Deletion: happens frequently to reduced vowels (ew. police, no o, garage, no first a), and also to consonants within clusters (ex. first r in surprise, d in wednesday)
