Notes (Gibbon)

Phonemes: The Phonological Units of Language

• Minimal Pairs

Distinctive Features

• Binary Valued Features
• Sounds That Are Not Phonemes
• Phoneme, Phones, and Allophones

Sequential Constraints

Natural Classes

• Major Class Features
• Feature Specifications for American English Consonants and Vowels

More On Prosodic Phonology

• Intonation
• Word Stress
• Sentence and Phrase Stress

The Rules of Phonology

• The Formalization of Phonological Rules
• Assimilation Rules
• Dissimilation Rules
• Feature Addition Rules
• Segment Deletion and Addition Rules
• Movement (Metathesis) Rules
• From One to Many and from Many to One
• The Function of Phonological Rules
• Slips of the Tongue: Evidence for Phonological Rules

The Pronunciation of Morphemes

• Morphophonemics
• More Sequential Constraints

Terminology

accent:

accidental gap:

allomorph:

allophone:

assimilation (rule):

complementary distribution:

contrast:

cover symbols:

derivation:

distinctive feature:

dissimilation rule:

ease of articulation:

feature matrix:

form:

free variation:

geminates:

intonation:

meaning:

metathesis rules:

metrical structure:

minimal pair:

minimal set:

natural class:

neutralization:

nonsense words:

phone:

phoneme:

phonemic environment:

(phonological) rule:

phonology:

phonotactics:

pitch contour:

possible words:

primary stress:

redundant feature:

secondary stress:

sibliants:

Phonology Online Links

Again, try the local web sites first, and look for material that has been provided for previous courses.

A selection of ressources related to Computational Morphology and Phonology is given by the Summer Institute of Linguistics (SIL).