Descriptive Phonology

Phonotactic Constraints

________: rules for one language cant be mapped onto another.

Phonotactics

________: knowing what sequence of phonemes are allowed.

target clusters

The ________ suggest a series of mental calculations or planning units.

Cognitive

________: analysis of sound processing and productions.

Phonology

________: study of systematic nature of sounds as mental categories.

Descriptive

________: analysis of sound patterns and sound alterations.

Sound Alterations

________: rules governing range of low- level phonetic articulation.

Sound patterns

________: mental knowledge of what phonemes occur in the language and what sequences of phonemes are allowed.

Phoneme inventories

________: each language makes use of a specific set of sounds to build syllables and words.

Descriptive phonology

________ examines sound patterns and alternations in a language through collected phonetic data.

Categorical perception of phonetic variation

________ is evidence for mental abstraction of sounds (phonology)

Phonotactics

________: speech sounds have a distribution.

Phonetics is messy

you never say the exact same articulation twice

Phonology

study of systematic nature of sounds as mental categories

Descriptive

analysis of sound patterns and sound alterations

Cognitive

analysis of sound processing and productions

Sound patterns

mental knowledge of what phonemes occur in the language and what sequences of phonemes are allowed

Phonotactics

knowing what sequence of phonemes are allowed

(ex

no t before k)

Sound Alterations

rules governing range of low-level phonetic articulation

Phonology

Basic Inventories

phoneme inventories

each language makes use of a specific set of sounds to build syllables and words

Phonotactics

speech sounds have a distribution

Phonotactic Constraints

rules for one language cant be mapped onto another

thats how you get accents

phonotactics of the source language dont overlap with those of the target language