Exam 1 Part 4 Flashcards
When does assimilation get repressed?
3-4 years old
What are the limitations of natural phonology?
SLPs use it as a description, not applying it, does the patter reflect the child’s representation? Patterns that do not fit into natural phonology
Looks into phonological patterns of productions
Natural phonology
Limits possible productions of words in optimality theory; can represent different patterns in various languages
Constraints
Existence of a marked trait in a phonological system implies the existence of the _____ counterpart
Unmarked
_____ implies vowels according to the Optimality theory
Consonants
Fricatives imply _____ according to the Optimality theory
Plosives
Clusters imply ______ according to the Optimality theory
Singletons
Single consonants
Singletons
Limits which phonemes are permitted in a language
Inventory constraints
What is an example of an inventory constraints?
Clicking vs no clicking in English
Limits where phonemes are permitted in words
Positional constraints
Limit how phonemes combine to form syllables and words in terms of the number of phonemes permitted in a syllable and how they combine to form the syllable
Sequential constraints
Syllables begin with a consonant
ONSET constraint
Syllables have one vowel
PEAK constraint
