ENG 210 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Dissimilation, Sonorant, C More Entertainment
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Ways in which sounds predictably change in certain environments. Types of change through which a phoneme is translated" into a given allophone. Assimilation describes how a sound becomes more similar to surrounding sounds. Primary motivation for assimilation: ease of articulation. Compare: nut case, night class, kid-gloves, bad guy. /n/ /t/ /d/ assimilate to the place of art. More examples: in may alveolar becomes bilabial before a bilabial: input, unbelievable, runway. /n/ [m] / ____ [m, b, p, w] footpath, bad boy. /t/ [p] / ____ [m, b, p, w] /d/ [b] / ____ [m, b, p, w] Alveolars become palatal before palatals: horseshoe, miss you, as yet, news sheet. Christian, individual, got you, find you, behind you. Back v becomes front when preceded by a front v in the same word. Finnish: talo + ssa house-in" (back vowel + back v) Mets + ss ( forest-in") (front v + front v) Fricative becomes a stop after fricative /s/
