COMD 2050 Chapter : COMD 2050 Ch 4
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The study of the sound system of language. Description of the systems and patterns of speech sounds in a language. Based on a theory of what native speaker unconsciously knows about the sound patterns of his/her language. We use our phonological knowledge to decipher meaning even when spellings or sounds are not exactly like the original. So even if the sounds are pronounced a bit differently, we still generally. You have representations of speech sounds of your language in your mind. These abstract units are called phonemes. recognize them as matching the phoneme representation in our mind. Underlying blueprint of each sound that we have, rather than how it"s. In our mind, they"re all the same (a t property a change in one phoneme would change the meaning. Example: bat [b t] is meaningfully different from back [b k] We know that [t] and [k] are different phonemes because of the contrastive between sounds like [t] and [k].
