01:615:315 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Syllable, Loanword, Epenthesis
11 Nov 2016
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Cross linguistic analysis is for discovering states of cognition. We need to understand the restrictions and variations that allow certain structures and ban others. Foreign accents are the product of people applying their native phonology to another language. It has had contact with english and in this case, is similar to english. It can have syllables without an onset as in [i. nu] where the . " is a symbol that denotes a syllabic boundary. The first question when looking at any language you want to analyze is: No language bans onsets but some hold that onsets are optional while others require onsets in a syllable. The distinction between word-initial onsets and other onsets must be made which creates the sub-question: In american english, initial onsets are obligatory while other onsets are optional. Compare this with an apple where the glottal stop does not occur before. The consonant from an slurs into apple and the.
