quiz 2 Flashcards
The Sound Patterns of English
Describes five features that establish and distinguish among phonemes
Major class features
Cavity features
Manner of articulation features
Source features
Prosodic features
Sonorant:
Open vocal tract configuration promoting voicing.
General American English (GAE):Vowels, Nasals, and Approximants [ɹ ] and [l] .
Consonantal:
Sounds produced with a high degree of oral obstruction
Plosives, Fricatives, Affricates, Approximants [ɹ ] and [l], and Nasals.
Approximants:
Sounds produced with oral obstruction not higher than required for the high vowels [i] and [u ]
Vowels and Approximants [l] and [r]
Cavity Features: Place of Articulation
Coronal:
Blade of the tongue raised from its neutral position.
[t], [d], [s], [z]. [n], and [l].
Cavity Features: Place of Articulation
Anterior-
Sounds produced in the frontal region of the oral cavity with the alveolar ridge being the posterior border
labial, dental, and alveolar consonants
Cavity Features: Place of Articulation
3) Nasal: open nasal passageway-[m], [n], and [ŋ].
4) Lateral: lowered lateral rim portions of the tongue- GAE-[l]
5) High- high tongue position
6) Low- low tongue position
7) Back- Retracted body of the tongue (back vowels, velars)
8) Round- Lip rounding [w]
Manner of Articulation Features
Continuant:
sounds produced without hindering the airstream with any blockages in the oral cavity.
Vowels, fricatives, and approximants are [+continuants]
Plosives, nasals, and affricates are [-continuants].
Manner of Articulation Features
Delayed release-
Sounds produced with a slow release of a total obstruction within the oral cavity.
Affricates such as [ʧ] and [ʤ] are [+delayed release].
Source Features
Voiced-
Produced by simultaneous vocal fold vibration.
All GAE vowels are [+voiced]
Source Features
Strident-
The term “strident” means: making a loud or harsh sound.
Generative phonology
is an outgrowth of distinctive feature theory.
Generative phonology talks about two levels of sound representation:Surface-level representations
the actual productions (what the child produced)
Generative phonology talks about two levels of sound representation:Deep structure
Abstract underlying ‘features’ of such production
How Does Generative Phonology Work?
Use distinctive features from Chomsky and Halle (1968)’s chart that are used to differentiate specific sounds
Identify the context in where the change is made.
Let’s Practice Some Annotations
All word final consonants are deleted
Velar /k,g/ are realized as stops /t,d/
All initial two and three consonant clusters are reduced to one consonant
Naturalness and Markedness: Chomsky and Halle (1968)
Toddlers tend to make similar substitutions; this makes us think that some speech sounds are easier than others
Natural and Unmarked
Certain phonemes are more natural, more common across different languages; these phonemes are labeled unmarked.
Marked
Marked phonemes are more difficult to produce and occur less often in languages across the world.
Distinctive features theory
is any property that separates a subset of element from a group. Distinctive features in phonology create a distinction between the sounds we use in the speech.
Distinctive sound features demonstrate similarities and dissimilarities among phonemes.
A binary system is used.
+indicates the presences of a certain features
-indicates the absence of certain features
Implicational Universals
Theoretically speaking the if the child produces a marked sound (X) this implies that he/she should be able to produce a more unmarked/natural speech sound (Y)
The presence of X implies Y.
Cannot be turned around.
Natural Phonology
The theory of natural phonology explain the patterns of speech are governed by an innate, universal set of phonological processes.
All children are born with the capacity to use the same system of phonological processes.
Trajectory of Phonological Processes: Stampe (1969)Limitation:
The child may choose to use a more natural/unmarked sound for a more marked one