Psychology 2134A/B Lecture Notes - Fricative Consonant

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 2134A/B
• Professor: Marc Joanisse

Document Summary

Outline the basic elements of language y phonology: the sound pattern of a language y morphology the structure of words. Making new words from familiar ones y syntax sentence structure y semantics the literal meanings of words and sentences y pragmatics going beyond literal meaning. Maybe not we use it in words like aptitude and raptor. The reason is a bit more nuanced: "pt" cannot appear at the beginning of a word in. Fun fact: ptak is perfectly acceptable in many other languages. Speakers use this sequence at the start of words in other languages like greek and russian. English phonological grammar does not permit this sequence. Like in the case of syntax, different languages have different phonological phonological rules. In this course we will focus on english phonology. Most of what we will learn also applies to other language as well though. The first principle is that words can be analyzed into smaller segments called phonemes.