BLEEP!!

Oct 24, 2006 10:22

Yes, that was swearing. Stupid friggin linguistics mid-term ( Read more... )

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mimis October 25 2006, 08:32:05 UTC
i am so having a hard time in ling.
not because i fall asleep in lecture though.
no.no.yesssss.........maybe.

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graceglace October 25 2006, 10:26:19 UTC
Wait, you're taking linguistics?!? Awesome! Do you understand the difference between phone, phoneme, and allophone?

Because I sure as hell don't.

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ling is a Bi-shut your mouth! mimis October 27 2006, 00:07:04 UTC
yeah!, well phoneme and allophone at least:
first comes a phoneme. a phoneme would be like 't, d, b...' all the sounds with their symbols. then comes the allophone. the allophone is actually derived from one of the phonemes. there is actually no way of really differentiating the two, but an easy way to look at it would be thinking of what would come more easily for you to use. some allophones are nd, where the n is smaller and on top. since that is a d, but aspirated, it is a allophone of d.
i hope that made some sort of sense.....

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Re: ling is a Bi-shut your mouth! mimis October 27 2006, 00:08:08 UTC
what i meant to say is 'an example of an allophone is nd'

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