LINB04H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Allophone, Free Variation, Phoneme
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Allophone an acoustic realization of a phoneme (surface) Linb04 lecture 2 phonemes & allophones. A list of every contrastive sound that occurs in the language. Each language has a finite # of contrastive sounds: contrastive/phonemic inventory includes only sounds that change meaning if replaced by other sounds of that particular inventory. Phoneme a mental category of contrast (underlying) Combinations of vowels in english is very restricted and you don"t have the vowel [a] alone, you usually see it with [ j ] Psycholinguistics: ganong (1980: speakers tend to perceive ambiguous stimuli as well-formed words, e. g. Synthetically generated sound that"s between [p] & [t] will be perceived as either [p] or [t], but not as something else. Infants perceive acoustic differences that adults no longer do: e. g. Infants growing up in english speaking homes can hear the difference between [t] and [t ], however loses this ability when they"re : babies learn to categorize sounds according to their own language.
