LING 1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 25: Sibilant, Phonetics, Minimal Pair
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Sound is continuous but perception of speech sounds is categorical: this is why it is possible to inventory with finitely many symbols the sounds of all human languages. Phonology: branch of linguistics that is concerned w the regularities in how sound patterns work in a language. The pronunciation of n" in the following phrases: Assimilation rule: the nasal n" will have the same place of articuation as the immediately following consonant. How can" is pronounced depends on its linguistic context. Memory: the verb can" is stored in memory as /k n/ Pronunciation can be the result of rules (sensitive to phonetic/ articulatory structure) Sounds can make all the difference for the meaning. [d] change the meaning entirely of bait vs date. These two words form a minimal pair (a word that differs by one sound in the same position but in the phonetic spelling) and they show that t and d contrast in english.
