Chapter 2: Linguistic Organization

Mafuyu Kitahara

2006-10-19

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Review of Chapter 1: speech chain This book: describe each link of the chain

• This chapter: linguistic level, units, function

Units of language: symbols• person on a wheelchair

Language: symbols and rules to assemble them

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Words consist of smaller units: phonemes• heed, hid, head, had: difference in the middle

• Phoneme = such distinguishing sounds in a language

Table 2.1: Phonemes of GA English• 14 vowels and 24 consonants

Syllable: a vowel surrounded by one or more consonants