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    Segmental phonology analyzes individual speech sounds, while suprasegmental phonology examines features that extend over multiple sounds. Phonology studies the abstract patterns of a language's sounds rather than physical articulation. It analyzes units like phonemes, phones, and allophones, and how they relate based on rules of assimilation, dissimilation, deletion, insertion, and metathesis based on environmental context. Minimal pairs and sets demonstrate how sounds distinguish words.

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    Segmental Suprasegmental Phonology

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    Segmental phonology analyzes individual speech sounds, while suprasegmental phonology examines features that extend over multiple sounds. Phonology studies the abstract patterns of a language's sounds rather than physical articulation. It analyzes units like phonemes, phones, and allophones, and how they relate based on rules of assimilation, dissimilation, deletion, insertion, and metathesis based on environmental context. Minimal pairs and sets demonstrate how sounds distinguish words.

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    Segmental phonology analyzes individual speech sounds, while suprasegmental phonology examines features that extend over multiple sounds. Phonology studies the abstract patterns of a language's sounds rather than physical articulation. It analyzes units like phonemes, phones, and allophones, and how they relate based on rules of assimilation, dissimilation, deletion, insertion, and metathesis based on environmental context. Minimal pairs and sets demonstrate how sounds distinguish words.

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    Segmental &

    Suprasegmental Phonology
    Prepared by:
    Michael B. Lavadia, PhD
     Phonology is the branch of linguistics dealing with the
    relations among speech sounds in particular languages
    and in languages generally (Trask, 2005). It is, in effect,
    based on a theory of what every adult speaker of a
    language unconsciously knows about the patterns of that
    Phonology language. Because of this theoretical status, phonology is
    concerned with the abstract or mental aspect of the
    sounds in a language rather than with the actual physical
    articulation of speech sounds (Yule, 2017, Huber and
    Mukherjee, 2009).
     Segmental phonology is based on
    Segmental the segmentation of language into
    Phonology individual speech sounds provided
    by phonetics.
     Suprasegmental phonology is concerned
    with those features of pronunciation that
    Suprasegment cannot be segmented because they
    al phonology extend over more than one segment, or
    sound
     PHONEME
    Segmental - the basic theoretical unit that can be used
    Phonology to distinguish words or morphemes
     PHONE
    Segmental - the actual, concrete speech sounds that
    Phonology are viewed as the realization or
    representation of phonemes
     ALLOPHONE
    Segmental - phonetic variant of a phoneme in a
    Phonology particular language (The SIL Glossary of
    Linguistic terms)
     Alveolar [n] vs. dental [n]
    Allophonic  Aspirated [kh] vs. unaspirated [k]
    Variation  Velarized [ł] vs dental [ł] vs [ll] vs. [l]
     when two or more allophones cannot replace
    Complementa one another or cannot occur in the same

    ry Distribution position due to the fact that their occurrence is


    determined by the sounds that surround them
     When the idea of the phoneme was new, Roach
    (2011) noted, ―it was felt that phonemes were
    the ultimate constituents of language, the
    smallest element that it could be broken down
    Features into. But at roughly the same time as the atom
    was being split, phonologists pointed out that
    phonemes could be broken down into smaller
    constituents called features (p. 31).‖
     A minimal pair refers to two words of distinct
    meaning which exhibit different segments at
    one point but identical segments at all other
    Minimal pair points. The existence of such a pair
    demonstrates conclusively that the two
    segments which are different must belong to
    different phonemes.
     a group of three or more words showing
    Minimal Set a contrast among three or more segments
    is a minimal set
    Phonological  rules that govern how sounds change
    Rules during vocal communication
     in phonology, environment typically refers to
    Environment neighbouring phonemes
     Assimilation happens to a sound when it is influenced by one
    of its neighbours if speech is thought of as a string of sounds
    linked together

    Assimilation Regressive
    Progressive
    Coalescent
     It happens when a sound changes one of its features to become

    Dissimilation less similar to an adjacent sound, usually to make the two


    sounds more distinguishable (e.g marbre  marble)
     Aphaeresis (round for around)
    deletion/elision  Syncope (secretary)
     Apocope (singan)
     Prothesis
    Insertion  Epenthesis
     It is the process that changes the order of
    Metathesis phonemes

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