4.1 Phonology

Question 1

What is phonology?

Answer 1

The study of systems and patterns of speech sounds within a language

Question 2

What is phonetics?

Answer 2

Scientific studies of speech sounds. Acoustic, articulatory adn perceptual features

Question 3

What is a phone

Answer 3

Is a single speech sound. transcribed with [ ] (phonetics)

Question 4

What is a Allophone

Answer 4

are a set of phones which are all versions of the same phone. voiceless stops become unaspirated after s.
example: the phoneme p can be realised in two ways [p] pH} unaspirated and aspirated. these two versions are allophones of p. t can be realised in 3 ways: aspirated, unaspirated and flat(more of a voiced stop, d)

Question 5

What is a minimal pair

Answer 5

are words that are exactly the same apart from one phone and that phone leads to a difference in meaning.
example bear- pear b and p are the phone that cause the contracst therefore these are phonemes in this language

Question 6

What is a phoneme

Answer 6

Smallest meaningful unit of speech sounds. is abstract and exists in the mind of the speakers. transcribed with / / (phonology)