Pg 89-94 Flashcards
what is the phonetician’s task in describing the sound system of a language?
to determine how many phonemes it has and how many distinctive categories of vowels and consonants
phonetic environment
refers to the relative position in which speech sounds occur
Most Important phonetic environment
- initial
- final
- Medial
- intervocalic
- prevocalic
- postvocalic
initial
after a pause
final
before a pause
medial
between to phones
intervocalic
between vowels
prevocalic and postvocalic
preceding or following certain sounds or a class of sounds
Primary stress
’
unstressed
“u”
contractive distribution
phones occur in the same environment
complementary distribution
phones in totally different environments
Phonemes
phones that occur in the same environment and can change meanings of the words
allophones
they are phonetically similar but alwasy ocur in different environments
T/F sounds that are important im a langauge are apparently random in their distribution
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