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Nasals The following slides were made using Daniel Currie Hall’s website at http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~d anhall/phonetics/sammy.html
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Features: voiced bilabial stop b
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Features: voiced bilabial nasal m
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Features: voiced alveolar stop d
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Features: voiced alveolar nasal n
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Features: voiced velar stop g
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Features: voiced velar nasal
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Features: voiced bilabial nasal m
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Features: unvoiced bilabial nasal m o
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Features: voiced alveolar nasal n
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Features: unvoiced alveolar nasal n o
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Features: voiced velar nasal
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Features: unvoiced velar nasal o
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English: 3 nasals Icelandic: 10 nasals
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SHORTLONGUNVOICED BILAB ALV PAL VEL
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ng? singer finger hanger anger sting stink
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bank bæXk bang bæXg ban bæn /n/ [n][X] Shakespeare´s pronunciation
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“n becomes X” “directly followed by g or k” “when”
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“phoneme /n/ is realised as allophone [X]” “directly followed by g or k” “when”
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bank bæXk bang bæXg ban bæn Modern pronunciation Shakespeare´s pronunciation
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“g becomes zero” “directly following ” “when” = “g disappears”
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“g disappears after X”
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Minimal pairs bank bang ban bæXk bæX bæn g X has become a phoneme
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a b / x __ y How to read a phonological rule what happens where it happens
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a b / x __ y How to read a phonological rule what happens a b a Ø Ø aØ a “a becomes b” “a disappears” “a appears, a is inserted”
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a b / x __ y How to read a phonological rule where it happens x __ y “between x and y” “in front of x” “following x” __ x x __
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g disappearsafter n becomes before k,g
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Does this rule always apply ?
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sing singer finger hang hanger anger
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singer finger hanger anger long England mingle ringing
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The Morpheme the smallest unit of semantic meaning the smallest group of phonemes which has meaning
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The Morpheme sing sings singer agree disagreeable finger sing sing s sing er agree dis agree able finger
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“g disappears following ”
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“g disappears following in front of a morpheme boundary”
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longer longest younger youngest stronger strongest singer finger hanger anger long England mingle ringing EXCEPTIONS:
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