WLC 215 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Phoneme
15 Dec 2017
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Concrete v. abstract, construction (auditory phenomena) v. meaning (abstractions of sounds, phonemes) Phonemes- /phoneme/, can describe with terms such as voice/voiceless, position and effects of positional variance. In the stream of speech, phones may be modified depending on the following sound (assimilation) Allomorphs may be phonologically conditioned or morphologically conditioned. Language elements must occur in a fixed order: important component of both morphology and phonology. Language is a rule-governed behavior, one of the reasons we understand each other is because we use the same words. Truly irregular forms which do not fit into the general rules are morphologically conditioned. Morphologically conditioned words must be learned distinct of the general.
