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LING 303
Phonology I
vw
Today…
[±ATR] continued…
– in vowels, and
– in consonants
[+ATR] vowels
[–ATR] vowels
American English
ɹuːm ‘room’ ɹʊt ‘root’
luːt ‘loot’ wʊd ‘wood’
huːf ‘hoof’ ɹʊk ‘rook’
zuːm ‘zoom’ sʊt ‘soot’
puːl ‘pool’ kʊd ‘could’
ɹuːt ‘root’ ɹʊf ‘roof’
kuːd ‘cooed’ hʊf ‘hoof’
wuːd ‘wooed’ ɹʊm ‘room’
suːt ‘suit’ pʊl ‘pull’
ɹuːf ‘roof’ gʊd ‘good’
1) u ː> υ, except between [+anterior]’s or [labial]’s
– Short: cook, hook, shook, rook, brook, crook, hookah
– Long: food, toot, moot, poop, stoop, loose, spoon, moose, moon, spoof, snooze, doom, boob, snoop)
2) u ː> υ even after [+anterior] or [labial]
– Short: took, nook, look, forsook, book, Wookie
– Variable: snook, snooker, stook, Sook, gadzooks, spook, boogie
– Long: bazooka
3) u ː> υ even before [+anterior] or (dialectally) [labial]
– Short: good, could, should, hood, foot, stood, soot
– Variable: rooster, hoodlum, cooper, roof, room, root, coop, proof
– Long: brood, shoot, groove, scoop, hoot, coot, behoove, roost
French mid vowels
[selɔ] 'we seal' [sɛl] 'they seal'
[sedɔ] 'we yield' [sedʁɔ] 'they will
[ʁeɲa] 'reigning' [ʁɛɲ] 'they reign'
[tete] 'to nurse' [tɛt] 'she nurses'
[so] 'stupid.m' [sɔt] 'stupid.f'
[devo] 'devout.m' [devɔt] 'devout.f'
[vø] 'wish' [vœl] 'they want'
[pø] 's/he can' [pœv] 'they can'
[ø] 'eggs' [œf] 'egg'
Canadian French
plozɪb ‘plausible’ tʊt ‘all’ (fem.)
by ‘goal’ vi ‘life’
kri ‘cry’ rʊt ‘route’
tu ‘all’ (masc.) vɪt ‘quickly’
sʊp ‘soup’ lu ‘wolf’
marɪn ‘marine’ lʏn ‘moon’
trʏf ‘truffle’ ry ‘street’
rʏd ‘rude’ ply ‘rained’
Canadian French
pɔzɪtsɪf positif pɔzitsivite positivité
pʁɪmɪtsɪf primitif pʁimitsivite primitivité
mʏzɪk musique myzisjε musicien
kɥɪzɪn cuisine kɥizine cuisiner
mɪnɪs ministre ministεːʁ ministère
abʏzɪf abusif
bɪsɪk bicycle
ʃʊkʁʊt choucroute
klɪnɪk clinique
kɔmʏnɪs communisme
kʊzɪn cousine
kʊtsʏm coutume
defɪnɪtsɪf définitif
dzɪfɪsɪl difficile
abɪtsʏd habitude
ɪnʏtɪl inutile
ʒʏʁɪdzɪk juridique
mɪnʏt minute
fɪlɪp Philippe
pɪlʏl pillule
pʏpɪt pupitre
skʁʏpʏl scrupule
sʊkʊp soucoupe
tʊʁɪs touriste
ʏnɪk unique
Wolof (Senegal)
do r-e ‘to hit with’ x l-ε ‘to look with’re r-e ‘to be lost in’ dεm-ε ‘to go with’gæn-e ‘to be better in’ x m-ε ‘to know in’do r-le ‘to help hit’ j x-lε ‘to help give’re r-le ‘to lose property’ dε -lε ‘to lose
a relative’yæg-le ‘to be better in’ t kk-lε ‘to help tie’
Wolof
re r-o n ‘was lost’ rε r- n ‘had dinner’ow-o n ‘came’ j x- n ‘gave’bægg-o n ‘wanted’ t kk- n ‘tied’
Wolof
le b-æl ‘to tell stories for’ bey- l ‘to cultivate for’
fo t-æl ‘to launder for’ w r- l ‘to fast for’
jænd-æl ‘to buy for’ w x- l ‘to speak for’
Wolof
genn-ændo ‘to go outtogether’
dεnd- nd ‘to be neighbors’
tox-ændo ‘to smoketogether’
t pp- nd ‘to imitate’
dækk-ændo ‘to livetogether’
w x- nd ‘to say together’
Akan (Ghana)
http://hctv.humnet.ucla.edu/departments/linguistics/VowelsandConsonants/appendix/languages/akan/akan.html
Akan
o-bis - ‘he asked’ b i s
[+atr][–atr]
‘to ask’
-k ri-i ‘he weighed’ k r i
[–atr][+atr]
‘to weigh’
[ATR] in consonants?
Arabic
– http://hctv.humnet.ucla.edu/departments/linguistics/VowelsandConsonants/appendix/languages/arabic/arabic.html
Palestinian Arabic
ballaː s ‘thief’
ħaðː ‘luck’
ʔabsat ‘simpler’
baː s ‘bus’
manaː fið ‘ashtrays’
xajːaː t ‘tailor’
naʃaː t ‘energy’
tamʃiːta ‘hair stylist’
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