Essays on Allophones

1. True or False ___ All speech sounds are either vowels or consonants.

True

False b. _____ In English, when either a voiceless alveolar stop or a voiced alveolar stop occurs between a stressed and an unstressed vowel, both phonemes become voiced alveolar flaps.

True

False c. _____ Essentially a hold-over from Medieval Norman French, in English, the form of the plural morpheme (either /s/, /z/ or /əz/) essentially “elides”: that is, it depends on the vocal attributes of the word-initial phoneme in the very next word. True False d. _____ With the exception of vowels adjacent ...

Earlier generations believed that pidgins and creoles were wrong versions of English. It is only comparatively recently that linguists have realized that pidgins and creoles were rather new languages. Their words were largely taken from an older language during a period of linguistic crisis to fill an urgent need for communication (Holm, 2000, p. 25). This makes them appear to be deformed versions of that older language. If, however, one examines them as linguistic systems, analyzing the structure of their phonology, syntax, and word formation, it becomes evident that these systems are quite different from those of the language from ...

Consonants Chart

Consonant phonemes /m/ is a bilabial nasal consonant, as in /kup/ ‘house‘ (cf /rup/ ‘eye’). /p/ is voiceless bilabial plosive, as in /kyp/ ‘house’ (cf /kyb/ ‘roof’). It is represented by allophones [p] and voiceless bilabial fricative [ɸ], the latter pronounced in an intervocalic position: /kypyɾ/ ‘house’ [ky’ɸyɾ] ‘referring to a house’. /b/ is a voiced bilabial plosive, as in /kyb/ ‘roof’ (cf /Byb/ ‘child’). It is represented by allophones [b] and voiced bilabial fricative [β], the latter pronounced in an intervocalic position: /tɔ:b/ ‘water’ [tɔ:b], but /tɔ:byɾ/ ‘wet’ [tɔ: ‘βyɾ]. / B/ is a bilabial ...

As with any second language learners, Koreans face considerable difficulty with learning English, a language very much unrelated to Korean. This is something many of us, particularly at universities with large numbers of Koreans or at companies where there are a large number of Korean employees, face every day. But what specifically causes the difficulties? We will explore this topic and more in this paper. First of all, it is important to note that while English is an SVO language (Subject, Verb, Object), Korean is SOV (Subject, Object, Verb). This grammatical ordering alone can lead to confusion and jumbled order ...