LIN200H1 Study Guide - Comprehensive Final Exam Guide - Phonology, Voicelessness, Sociolinguistics
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What we think of as [h] and [i] in the word (cid:1688)he(cid:1689) is exactly the same articulation. H is very different depending on what sound it"s next to. A word like hay would be pronounced voiceless e e. Phonetics is concerned with the physical implementation of language. Phonology is more abstract: the mental organization of these sounds. A phone is the actually physical thing that we produce. It is possible to have something in between a phoneme, and a distinct unique phone. So a phone could be [h] or [i sub dot] [a sub dot] etc. The former is broad transcription and the latter is narrow transcription. There is no such thing as the only broad transpiration, narrow transcription. In different contexts you need to be precise in different ways so the definition changes. / / denotes abstract mental categories, while the [ ] can be very narrow or broader.
