Phonological derivation Kuiper and Allan Chapter 5.6
Derivation The processes which are involved in realising an underlying phonological representation phonetically create a derivation.
Example of a derivation Underlying Representation /kÅngres/ Aspiration kHÅngres Nasalization kHÅ‚ngres Vowel Lengthening kHÅ‚˘ngres Nasal assimilation kHÅ‚˘Ngres Surface Representation [kHÅ‚˘Ngres]
What is a phoneme? It is not a sound. It is a phonologically distinctive sound. What makes it distinctive? Its having a specific set of distinctive features, e.g voicing. So a phoneme is a bundle of distinctive features.