LIN101H5 Lecture 2: lin100_2013_handout04.pdf
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Required readings: o"grady & archibald, chapter 3, sections 3. 0-3. 18 and appendix: hints for solving phonology problems: phonology: introduction. Recall that phonetics studies how speech sounds (or phones) are produced, realized acoustically, and perceived by listeners. Phonology also deals with speech sounds, but it is concerned with how the sounds are represented and stored in the brain. Thus, while phonetics studies concrete physical properties of speech sounds, phonology studies their abstract mental representations. Phonology: the grammar of sounds, our implicit knowledge of sound structure. To determine what phonological knowledge is like. How sounds are stored and represented in the brain. How these mental representations result in systematic phonetic variation in speech: at the level of segments or suprasegmentals, within a given language and across languages. Our phonological knowledge deals with representations at various levels: Word level, syllable level, segment level, and feature level: phonological contrasts, phonemes and allophones. Some segments in a language contrast with each other, while others don"t.
