Study Notes on ENG 305: General Phonology of English

Description

Study Notes on ENG 305: General Phonology of English is designed to introduce students to some of the analytical approaches involved in the understanding of English phonology and also the identification of the phoneme in English. It also involves the taxonomic principles of phonemic analysis: contrastiveness, similarity, random variations, etc, the generative interpretation of English phonology: systematic phonology. The notion of distinctive features, phonological processes and rules in English is also discussed as well as the underlying representations and introductory non-linear phonology.