1 Phonological Development PHONOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENT: LEARNING THE SOUNDS OF LANGUAGE -Anonymous Linguistics 10 Fall 2019 California State University, Fresno By Shubham & Jaime 2 Phonological Development ABSTRACT The main focus is about the speech of sound. They are the acoustic signal languages used to express meaning. It deals with the sound structure in an individual language. With researching the goal in phonological development, it is more of a mental representation of sound units of language and the rules that govern how phonemes are realized in various contexts. It’s methodology is also concerned with metrical and syllable structure. The main findings are mainly focused on the principle of phonology, that can be applied to the treatment of speech. This chapter has been the realization that things are not the way they look. Introduction It focuses on the sound component of language and on how people come to learn sound systems of the language they acquire. It studies the pattern of the sounds in a language and across languages. Phonology is concerned with abstract. In phonetics we can see infinite realisations, with the phonological trees syllables are broken up more easily. The syllable is made up of rhyme and onset, where rhyme is made up of a nucleus and a coda. We learn, different languages can use different phonemes or different syllable structures. 3 Phonological Development Phonemes are meaningfully different sound units in a language. Phonology tells us what sounds are in a language, how they do and combine into words and most importantly explains why certain phonetic features are consequential to identifying a word. Literature Review It concerns the physical production, acoustic transmission and perception of the sounds of speech. Phonology is also defined as the study of sound pertaining to the system of language Phonology is considered to be a study of which sounds can be clustered together in significant and distinctive units within a language. The unit of this is prescribed as a phenome. The example can be such as words pot where the sound produced of p is aspirated and word spot where the sound produced of p is not aspirated. By Native English speakers both sounds are treated as allophones of the same phonological category. The sounds are perceived the same but however, in other languages such as hindi the sounds are perceived as different and they have an affect on the meaning of the words. The Current Study Phonemes are known to be the smallest sound units of language which have meaning. One of the characteristics of Phonemes are that they are meaningfully distinctive which makes them contrastive. A contrastive distribution would be considered when a phoneme occurs in the same environment but the meaning is different. We can also consider the concept of minimal 4 Phonological Development pairs in this situation where for example one word replaced can change the meaning of the word such as cat and mat where if c is re;placed by m the word meaning is changed.To be a minimal pair, the words must only differ in one phoneme occurring in the same place within the words. In order for words to be considered minimal pairs the placements of the words should be exact in both words. This concept is also used as a test for phoneme status. Minimal pairs can also be changed to minimal sets where there are two or more words replaced for example bit bot boot beat. The depiction of phonemes are done in slashes. Phonological study is performed in a way that collects and examines data where the underlying phonemes are highlighted and deduced, and also checks their sound. In addition to other considerations, the minimal pairs are used to check which two sounds should be assigned to the same phoneme. The notion of interchangeable work by allophones is complicated through the observations and experiences in speech perception and articulation. Interchangeable allophones of the same phoneme can result in terms that can not be recognized. In contrast, the voice is strongly coarticulated and its slice complex in parts. In order to deal with this problem, linguists take different approaches. Discussion As mentioned earlier in my sections, the language is considered to compromise as one of 5 Phonological Development the fundamental structures. This distinction was not always made, particularly in the mid-20th century, before the emergence of the modern phoneme theory. In descriptive disciplines such as psycholinguistics and speech interpretation, several subfields of modern phonology have an overlap with phonetics, resulting in specific areas like articulatory phonology or laboratory phonology. Conclusion Research consonant and vowel sounds are too important and interesting for me. Phonology is one of the few ways to understand every letter and word to pronounce in the right form. To compare consonant and vowel sounds, I can tell you that consonants are easier to pronounce and record in the mind, but you have to focus more on the vowels because the same letter can have different pronunciations. References All-about-linguistics.group.shef.ac.uk. (2019). Phonology – All About Linguistics. [online] Available at: https://all-about-linguistics.group.shef.ac.uk/branches-of-linguistics/phonology/ [Accessed 25 Nov. 2019]. Consonant and Vowel Sounds. (2012, June 10). 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