SLHS 22700 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Syllabification, Complementary Distribution, Minimal Pair

• School: Purdue University
• Department: Speech, Lang & Hear Science
• Course: SLHS 22700
• Professor: Ronnie Wilbur

Document Summary

You need to be able to identify one. two different words that differ in one sound in the same position. You should be able to identify a sound based on a set of its distinctive features. Usually allophonic sound changes are predictable because they are determined by the sound"s environment. English is predictable because we know they will be nasalized before a nasal consonant. What are the basic rules that syllabification tends to obey. You won"t be asked to state the sounds" distribution, but you need to be able to identify the correct description of their distribution. You need to know basic natural classes of sounds in english - table 5. 4 and figure 5. 5 will be very useful for this. natural classes: a group of sounds described by a small number of distinctive features such as. [-voiced], [-continuant], [syllabic], [sonorant], obstruents, nasals, liquids, glides, vowels vowels: (high, low, back, central, round, tense)