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Understanding Voicing in Phonology: An Animated Glossary of Linguistic Terms

This animated and narrated glossary explores the phonological feature of voicing, which distinguishes different phonemes based on vocal fold vibration during articulation. Key insights include how voicing differentiates sounds across languages, such as in pairs of words like "nab" vs. "nap" and "dog" vs. "dock." The glossary also addresses its semantic relevance and phonological alternations, highlighting examples from Russian language prefixes. Produced by researchers Wee, Lian-Hee, and Winnie H.Y. Cheung at Hong Kong Baptist University, this resource is a valuable tool for anyone interested in linguistics.

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Understanding Voicing in Phonology: An Animated Glossary of Linguistic Terms

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  1. [voice] An Animated and Narrated Glossary of Terms used in Linguistics presents

  2. Basic Idea • is a phonological feature. • It is used as a distinctive feature for distinguishing different phones/phonemes/segments. • It is also used as a distinctive feature for capturing a natural class of segments. [voice]

  3. Definition A phone/phoneme X is [voice] if in the articulation of X under normal phonation, there is vocal fold vibration. • By the definition given, • Obstruents like [b, g, z] • Sonorant consonants like [l, n, r, w] • Typical vowels like [u, o]

  4. [voice] as distinctive feature nab [næb] nap [næp] dog [dɒg] dock [dɒk] bad [bæd] bat [bæt] In each pair, everything is the same except for the [voice] of the final consonant. Evidence 1: Voicing is semantically relevant. Slide 4

  5. [voice] as distinctive feature Russian (Padgett 2002) Prefix /ot-/ Prefix /pod-/ ot-stupitʲ “to step back” pod-ʒeʧ “to set fire to” od-brositʲ “to throw aside” pot-pisatʲ “to sign” Evidence 2: Relevance of [voice] in phonological alternation. The final obstruent of a prefix must agree with the following obstruent in [voice]. Slide 5

  6. The End Wee, Lian-Hee and Winnie H.Y. Cheung (2009) An animated and narrated glossary of terms used in Linguistics. Hong Kong Baptist University.

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