[Introduction to Linguistics] Syllable Structure, Sonority Hierarchy

[@thisisnotahandle93]

Thanks a lot for this straightforward, comprehensible introduction to phonology. I've had some trouble with the sonority hierarchy but thanks to you I got it now. Awesome video, keep it up! Greetings from Germany

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[@kriadm]

and interesting, tbh. in my uni it's extremely boring

[@DialecticRed]

@@kriadm I'm not even in college yet but I've just been binging these videos because I want to perfect my French accent and also be able to read other languages with the right sounds, like for example even though I don't know any Korean, if know the alphabet and phonology I can see something like 안녕하세요 and know it is pronounced [ ɐn.jɔŋ.hɐ.sa͡ɪ.jo ], and I want to be able to do the same thing with languages like Russian and the Flemish dialect of Dutch, where unlike Netherlands Dutch where the "g" is pronounced as ɣ, in Flemish it is more of a χ or ʁ, not unlike the ʀ in a lot of French words. But I find the χ sound very difficult to emulate. But essentially, epsecially with French, I want to perfect my pronunciation to the point where I virtually do not have an accent.

[@omytouma6235]

not all heroes wear capes

[@othmanamani1042]

omytouma but certainly cape wearers are heroes.

[@DialecticRed]

[ nɑᵊt̚ ɔɫ hɪ͡ɚɹ.o͡ʊs wɛ͡a˞ɹ kʰæp͡s ]

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[@ShaleeHolmes]

I'm a second semester english student and oh my god it took me ages but you finally made it click. Thank you so so so much.

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[@michaelli8012]

When I was watching this video, I was also thinking about what kind of person would dislike this video???

[@iojay2835]

Great visual for intro students, and really easy to understand! I do take issue with what you said about breaking syllables between doubled consonants (in orthography) not being accurate, though. There's technically nothing wrong with breaking it there. Sure, it's maybe easier for some younger learners (elementary schoolers like I was, learning about syllables) to treat the doubled consonant as a single unit, but it's not wrong not to. When we say these words to count the syllable "beats," it is perfectly acceptable to say either [ha:-pi:] OR [hap̚-pi:] (and the same for "applaud"). And for some ELL students, it's actually more helpful to treat it as an unreleased plosive (or a "double-long" R or L). For example, many Japanese consonant sounds are extremely short compared to their English counterparts, particularly liquids (which mostly manifest as taps). (I wonder what other languages are "vowel-biased," as I call it, like this?) Anyway, so for Japanese learners of English, it's actually much more beneficial to teach them to split syllables between the consonants and "extend" those sounds mentally, because they're practically erasing them all to start with.

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[@elizabeth6505]

Question, at 18:00 is it really a schwa that is used for Spanish? I am just starting off learning IPA and I don't know the IPA for Spanish, but as a native Spanish speaker it sounds more like an epsilon e to me.

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[@korneliamckenziemusic1126]

"Is it ok to have those letters in our onset?" 5:45 Hmmmm... I don't really understand that. What if it's not ok to have those letters in the onset? What determines if they're ok? Sorry for all the questions xD. AWESOME video by the way!!

[@Trevtutor]

Native speaker judgements determine if it's okay, supported by the sonority hierarchy.

[@korneliamckenziemusic1126]

So it depends on whether or not you can form a word with the onset? That's what my prof was saying.

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[@abdullahal-shahrani920]

Thank you for your efforts!

[@CamillaBookTok]

Hi. How should be word confront syllabified to respect syllable sonority but not respect onset maximization?

[@CrecaSin]

is this into the segmental phonology? or which seperation exactly

[@niikchristodoulides8294]

It was perfect! But i have a question. What if we find the syllable structure of a word for example Factor. What if we separate them to Fa . ctor . Why this is wrong and Fac . tor is possible.

[@Trevtutor]

factor [fæktər]. If we split [fæ.ktər] like that, then we are saying that [kt] is an allowable onset cluster in English. But no words in English start with [kt] in an onset position, thus we have to split it [fæk.tər]

[@niikchristodoulides8294]

Thank you so much!!

[@lineyoon]

You can also refer to a phonotactic constraints , which is language specific . In this case [kt]is not possible in English while [st] is accepted.

[@cicio547]

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[@aritzlizarragaolascoaga6254]

The problem that we Spanish speakers have (I don't have that problem) is that the s can't be before another consonant. That's why we add an e before. The s is pronounced without previous vowel addition when there's a vowel to the right of the s like in: super, sand, serious...

[@akshaypuradkar1568]

isn't 'unfun' one of those exceptions of compounding? @ 19:46. like a rule's just used wrong!

[@Trevtutor]

"unfun" is a fine word. It's affixation on the word 'fun'.

[@akshaypuradkar1568]

undo, unbutton, uninstall, unlock - all are verbs! well, yes, 'unhappy' is one. but,.. it feels like something's amiss. I hope I'm not being rude or anything,. am just wondering, given the lectures are on it anyway.

[@Trevtutor]

unlawful, unappealing, untalented, uninspiring. It's a latin root that attaches to certain verbs and adjectives.

[@adaladal5818]

thank you for the lesson.

[@mohdshahrukh1082]

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[@MrInsdor]

Nice video. Can you tell me something about NONpulmonic sounds in the sonority hierarchy? I can find almost nothing. Only thing is 'Sonority and the Larynx' about implosives. But nothing for ejectives and clicks. I feel like they should be unaffected because you don't actually flow them together with other sounds. Also Darren Ramos stole this video a week ago and uploaded it on yt

[@Trevtutor]

Different languages may have more elaborate sonority hierarchies. nonpulmonics would likely be in the bottom half of the hierarchy though.

[@MrInsdor]

TheTrevTutor That's what I speculate too. What surprises me is that I can barely find any papers even toying with the idea of a nonpulmonic sonority hierarchy. That said, the one including one type of nonpulmonics ranks them quite high. (Voiced) implosives on the same step as voiced fricatives and voiceless nasals. Nevermind, that's still pretty low. The researched languages were mostly Bantu languages.

[@najlafaouzi6734]

so what's the correct process ? ongstray or trongsay ?

[@Trevtutor]

Most native English speakers produce ongstray and similar variants.

[@kriadm]

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[@Trevtutor]

Windows Journal.

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[@luohaolun9401]

Very helpful

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[@AnyaChuri]

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[@asmahassona6331]

Thank you

[@AshErosion]

One word: revelation.

[@SeekingUltimateSynthesis]

Sorry to burst your bubble, but my gut reaction was trongsay >_

[@kellye2013]

take-away of lesson "...English is very bad [for orthography]," 1:21~ Trev the Tutor