Complete summary Linguistics 3B: The Phonology of English

Complete Summary

Linguistics 3B
The Phonology of English




Anouk de Waard
BA English Language and Culture
Leiden University

,Index

Index 1
English Consonants 3
Place of articulation 3
Manner of articulation 4
English Vowels 6
English short vowels English long/tense vowels 6
Primary cardinal vowels 6
English diphthongs 7
Distinctive Features 8
Consonants 8
Vowels 9
Allophonic Variation 10
Complementary distribution vs Contrastive distribution 10
Variation in Voicing 11
Variation of Place 11
Primary variation of place 11
Secondary variation of place 12
Allophonic Variation of Manner 12
Vowels 12
Syllable Structure 13
Onsets 13
Codas 14
Nuclei 14
Rhyme 14
Syllable weight 15
Syllabic consonants 15
Syllable affiliation in English 15
Phonotactics and distribution 16
Phonotactic constraints 16
Sonority scale 16
Maximal onset principle 16
Morpheme 17
Rule Ordering 18
Types of Rule ordering 18
Derivation 18
Derivation example 18
Connected Speech Phenomena 19
Weak / contracted 19
Stress shift / iambic reversal 19


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, Re-syllabification 19
Assimilation 19
Elision 19
Insertion / Epenthesis 19
Symbols 20
Miscellaneous concepts 21
VOT 21
Distribution 21
Language variation 21
Dialect 21
L1 acquisition 22
young monolingual infants (0-4 months) can distinguish: 22
young monolingual infants (5-8 months) can distinguish: 22
Developmental path 22
Infant sound productions first 6 to 7 months 23
Prerequisites for Word Learning 23
First word productions 24
The Sound Pattern of English (SPE) 25
The acquisition of speech sounds 25
Summary 26




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