LING 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Markedness, Syllabification, Allophone

• School: Simon Fraser University
• Department: Linguistics
• Course: LING 100
• Professor: Clifford Burgess

Document Summary

Property theories: try and define mental representations that you have in your head. Transition theories: what is happening over time; you go from one particular state to another: want to get these two theories into one. Markedness: has something to say about these matters. Some sounds and sructures are simpler and occur more frequently than others; they are unmarked: these are generally easier to acquire, something is more marked if its presence is present in something else (?) /t/ surfa(cid:272)es as different sounds in (cid:449)ords like (cid:862)top(cid:863), (cid:862)stop(cid:863)(cid:863), (cid:862)little(cid:863), (cid:862)kitten(cid:863), and (cid:862)hunter(cid:863: these t sounds all sound different. Text considers syllabification and stress assignment, both of which have big impact on how listeners interpret (cid:449)hat"s said. Lots of data about how hard it is. Can be set one way or the other depending on input that you get. Markedness and subset principle part in textbook read this.