LING 240 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Italian Language, Complementary Distribution, Phoneme
19 May 2020
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Sindhi is an indo-aryan language spoken by approximately 18. 5 million people in. Question 26 is only asking you to look at the phones. Step 1: look for minimal pairs/sets (i. e. , two words contrasting in only one sound). The fact that we find a set of three words, contrasting in only one sound (the sounds we are interested in [p], [ph] and [b]), suggests that these three are phones of separate phonemes. Note: there is another minimal set [b nu] [b u] [b u], but this set does not distinguish the phones we are interested in. [ph] being allophones of /p/ and [b] being a phone of /b/ If you were to do a distribution statement, it would be overlapping: [p] [ph] and [b] can all occur between [ ] and [n]. No rule can be written, since each can occur in the same environment: standard italian. In the italian question, you are first asked if there are any minimal pairs.
