HLTA03H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Phonetics, Blim
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Lec 1: goals of phonology; review of phonetics (reading: ch. What is phonology: -study of mental speech sounds. How is phonology different from phonetics: the two are closely related. Phonetics deals with physical manifestation of speech sounds. Phonology deals with the abstract patterning of speech sounds and the underlying cognitive system of mental rules/grammar. Key concerns of phonology: segments: there are sounds that recur in various words of a language, such as the [k] in cat, act, king, etc. Phonologists are concerned with understanding the range and nature of sounds that constitute a particular language and also human language in general and how they are organized and classified. Phonotactics (possible combination of segments): possible and impossible combinations of sounds. English /t/ sound is pronounced as [t ] (cid:894)top(cid:895), [t] (cid:894)stop(cid:895), [ ] (water),
