PSY 3136 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Elision, Phonetics, Phoneme
6 Feb 2019
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Languages differ in terms of: what sounds are used, how the sounds are used. Phoneme: smallest structural sound unit that can change meaning. Allophone: phones that do not differentiate meaning: p and ph in english (but not in thai) Elision: the next day turns into the nex day. What about the next car that stays the same word. So, imagine trying to explain that to children. Ex: the big molice pan and the bertie dumb (dennis lee) Differences between phonetics and phonology: real versus abstract, form versus function, phone versus phoneme, allophonic variation. Phonology: distinctive feature (minimal pairs where we change one phoneme and it changes the whole meaning of the word) Spelling (orthography: nope, does not consistentlyl represent the sounds of language. The same sound may be represented by many letters or combinations: he people key believe seize machine caesat seas see amoeba the e"s are all different.
