LING101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Oneword, Phoneme

• School: University of Delaware
• Department: Linguistics
• Course: LING101
• Professor: Larsen Darrell

Document Summary

Segmental features are (generally) easy to determine in isolation. Suprasegmental features are relative and determined across segments. Single suprasegmental features may occur over a single segment or a sequence of segments. The length of individual phones (sounds) may differ. The length of a phone may depend on pragmatic reasons, phonetic reasons, or phonemic reasons. In english, vowels preceding voiced consonants are longer than vowels preceding voiceless consonants. When identical phones end up adjacent to each other, they may be pronounced as a single, long sound. Two plus seven > two plus eight. In some languages, changing the length of a phone can change a word"s meaning. In english, some vowels are pronounced longer than others. A speaker"s pitch may be culturally (and situationally) influenced * Pitch as part of language includes both intonation and tone. Pitch as it operates over phrases and sentences (including one-word phrases) Plays a role in determining utterance meaning.