DANCEST 805 Lecture Notes - Lecture 69: Diphthong, Monophthong, Vowel Length
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Study of the sounds that we humans can make. Study of the sound systems of individual languages background of the sounds of language, how we acquire them and how sound systems change. Infants and young children are exposed to a continuous phonetic stream and must make sense of this by working out the systemic structure which underlines this stream of sounds. In the first few years of life children analyse the phonetic stream they hear around them. This is a major source of change in a language. Handling variation across time: transgenerational children will hear speech around them in which some features are on the increase and some are on the decrease. This applies to all levels of language, not just phonology. A graphic representation of this situation might look something like the following. Stress pattern of verbs vs. nouns with two syllables. Originally both stressed on the 2nd syllable.
