Hangtan

Revision:
- Generative grammar model
- Mental lexicon- use of English, collocations, usage of words

stores a list of the words, morphemes of a language

- Place of phonology and phonetics in grammar
- Grammar=model of linguistic competence
- Generative model of language: lexicon, morphology, syntax, phonology, semantics
- Know a word- the elements that the word is built up from
- Phoneme:/ / contrastive abstract sound segments from which the different morphemes or
words in the mental lexicon are built up
ship-sheep
- Words are different- phonemes are contrastive sound segments
- Allophones. surface representation
the actual articulation or realization of phonemes is called the phonetic or surface
representation
the elements of this are called allophones
- Phonology: is the module in your grammar that maps each phoneme to its realization
- Questions: Do we articulate phonemes? Not directly
- Phonological environment: the context in which a sound segment occurs- focus line_
- Phonemic Principle: every language has a limited set of phonemes- phoneme inventory
- Minimal pair: two words form a minimal pair if they have the same length and differ in
one sound in the same location
cat-cut guy-gay fit-fat cap-cup
- Allophonic Principle is a realization of a phoneme on the surface; phonemes may vary;
the variation is predictable
Vowels:

- Front vowels are unrounded and back vowels are rounded

- Overlapping distribution