LING 1001 Study Guide - Affix, Reduplication, Morpheme

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Natural classes: a group of sounds (in a language) that share one or more properties to the exclusion of all other sounds (in that language) velar consonants tense vowels labials obstruents sonorants. Assimilation: sound becomes more like a neighboring sound w. r. t. some phonetic property nasalization voicing place of articulation vowel quality vowel nasalization. Insertion: adds a segment that was not present at the phonemic level voiceless stop insertion dance /d ns/ [d nts] strength /st en / [st e k ] . If they are allophones, find natural classes in the environments a: state a generalization about the distribution of each sound, determine the identity of the phoneme and its allophones (basic/restricted, write a rule that shows the process of phoneme allophone. Lexicon: mental dictionary lexical entry contains information about lexical category (noun, verb, adjective, preposition, etc. ) pronunciation meaning syntactic context orthography most root forms.