LING 1150 Lecture Notes - Lecture 19: Speech Community, Epenthesis, Monophthong
13 Jun 2019
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Lecture notes - intro to language & linguistics. Prescriptive approach: view there is a correct form of language/grammar: classic latin was frozen" because of its rigidity in rules. Phonetic changes are low-level changes in allophonic realization. I. e. mental categories remain unaffected but pronunciation shifts. Phonological changes are full scale changes in the systematic representation of a sound within a language. /p, t, k/ /f, , h/ Lexical diffusion: a sound change typically starts to speak slowly through all the words in the lexicon. Some changes are unconditioned -- one sound changes to automatically and without reference to neighboring sounds: most changes are conditioned because of neighboring sounds, always structurally-based. Insertions (epenthesis): a vowel/consonant is inserted into a word form. Compensatory lengthening: a vowel is lengthened when a anking consonant is lost. Rhotacism: fricatives /s,z/ change to rhotic /r: metathesis: whenever one sound switches places with another sound within a word breaking/diphthongization: a monophthong vowel breaks" into a diphthong.
