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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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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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