Marcia Janeth Valdes Workshop 1 Phonology

Latina university
English degree
Phonology
workshop 1

Marcia Janeth Valdés 4-784-907

Phoneme
is the smallest sound unit in a language that is capable of conveying a distinct meaning, such as
the s of sing and the r of ring. Adjective: phonemic. Phonemes are language-specific. In other
words, phonemes that are functionally distinct in English (for example, /b/ and /p/) may not be
so in another language. (Phonemes are customarily written between slashes, thus /b/ and /p/.)
Different languages have different phonemes.

Allophone
any of the various phonetic realizations of a phoneme in a language, which do not contribute to
distinctions of meaning. For example, in English an aspirated p (as in pin) and unaspirated p (as
in spin) are allophones of the phoneme /p/ , whereas in ancient Greek the distinction was
phonemic.
is a set of multiple possible spoken sounds – or phones – or signs used to pronounce a
single phoneme in a particular language.
Phone
Phone means a sound; any sound that is produced by vocal organs. Phone, particularly in
phonology, is a smallest possible segment of sound (which has some physical feature)
abstracted from the continuum of speech. The terms ‘phonetics’ and ‘phonology’ in linguistics
are also take from the word ‘phone’ because both these branches deal with sounds in
linguistics.
Phonetic
of or relating to speech sounds, their production, or their transcription in written symbols.
concerning or involving the discrimination of nondistinctive elements of a language. In English,
certain phonological features, as length and aspiration, are phonetic but not phonemic.

Phonology

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the system of contrastive relationships among the speech sounds that constitute the
fundamental components of a language.the branch of linguistics that deals with systems of
sounds (including or excluding phonetics), within a language or between different languages.

Elision

In linguistics, an elision or deletion is the omission of one or more sounds (such as a vowel,

a consonant, or a whole syllable) in a word or phrase. However, these terms are also used to
refer more narrowly to cases where two words are run together by the omission of a final
sound. An example is the elision of word-final /t/ in English if it is preceded and followed by a
consonant: "first light" is often pronounced /fɜ:s laɪt/. Many other terms are used to refer to
particular cases where sounds are omitted.

Minimal pairs

In phonology, minimal pairs are pairs of words or phrases in a particular language, spoken

or signed, that differ in only one phonological element, such as
a phoneme, toneme or chroneme and have distinct meanings. They are used to demonstrate
that two phones represent two separate phonemes in the language.

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