Linguistics 2248A/B Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: Prenasalized Consonant, Diphthong, Phoneme

• School: Western University
• Department: Linguistics
• Course: Linguistics 2248A/B
• Professor: Olga Kharytonava

Document Summary

Spelling pronunciations: pronunciations that have no historical basis, but which arise as attempts to mimic the spelling. Accents that phonologically miss the mark don"t do so in random ways. Transfer: the phenomenon of mispronunciations in a second language in ways attributable to the phonology of the first language. Consider phonology as the set of pronounceable things in a given language and anything outside the set to be phonologically illegal for one of three reasons: It corresponds to an illegal sequence of phonemes. It corresponds to an impossible distribution of allophones. Some sounds like [h] and [ ] don"t contrast because they appear in entirely different contexts. They are not allophones because allophones of the same phoneme are heard as the same sound by native speakers and this is not the case for these very different sounds. Safe to say that they are separate phonemes and cannot form contrasts for accidental reasons.