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| How many systematic phones in English |
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70
37 phonemes(23 consonants, 14 vowels) |
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/iy/ /i/-beat, see, machine
/I/-bit, him
/ey/ /e/-bait, made
/E/-bet, leg,head
/ae/- bat, has
/^/-but,mother
/upside down e/-sofa. until
/uw/ /u/
/u with both tops curved out/
/ow/ /o/
/backwards c/ father, car(NY accent)
/upside down non fancy a/
/ay/ bite, sight
/aw/ about
/oy/ boy, noise |
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2 normally distinct phonemes articulated as a single segment when they occur in linear adjacency
ex: engma in Eng.
schwar in ing
syllabic l-sounds in words like oral
syllabic nasals; given
sonorants |
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2 different sounds in mouth, sound different in brain
ex: mouth [xS], [d3]
hear [tS], [d3] |
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| ts, dz, can't be word initial, but [tS] can how you put sounds together |
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| phonetically complex phonemic segment |
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Definition
| like diphthongs and affricates can be single phonemes even if phonetically are two segments |
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phonemes going out of language
-distinctions(content word vs. function word, noun vs. verb)
ex: phoneme thorn is dropping out-sounds a lot like theta-thorn is a dependent phoneme
-hard to hear difference for native speakers no independent meaning |
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| stylistically marked phoneme |
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recently born phonemes-born because of borrowed words
/3/ |
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