Handouts
Today we started talking about phonology. We observed that the way we pronounce sounds is actually more detailed and variable than we had previously noted. We also observed that two languages can have the same sounds but organize them differently. I introduced the notions of phonemes, allophones, minimal pairs, complementary distribution, and contrastive distribution. I didn’t hand out any DQs today (so no quiz tomorrow) but you can expect a set of DQs tomorrow, some of which might include stuff we covered today.