english sound structure part 2. Bài tập luyện ngữ pháp tiếng anh cho mọi người, đây là tài liệu hay và hữu ích có thể giúp các bạn có thể nắm vững được các ngữ pháp tiếng anh cụ thể. | 2 Sounds and Words sequence. For reasons to be considered presently the significance of this point is that phonological facts in the grammar are distributed between the lexicon and PF. Some aspects of pronunciation are peculiar to individual words and reflect the essential arbitrariness of the sound-meaning The idiosyncratic nature of such facts is underlined by the observation that the same concept in different languages can be signified by arbitrarily different sound sequences. Compare for example the forms dAk kanar French and letata Sesotho for the notion duck . Not being subject to any general phonological or other grammatical principles pronunciation facts of this type have to be listed in the lexicon. Other properties of pronunciation however display regular phonological patterning in the sense that they are characteristic of particular sound sequences rather than individual words. And not being lexically idiosyncratic these patterns tend to recur in different languages wherever the relevant sequences occur. One such pattern involves a process whereby a particular type of sound systematically undergoes a change when it comes to stand next to another particular type of sound. This situation can arise for example when two words or morphemes are juxtaposed in a sentence and the final sound of the first form comes into contact with the initial sound of the second. In the prototypical case such a process will affect any sequence of morphemes containing the relevant string of sounds. Here are some examples that occur naturally in conversational English 2 a te n ru n te m birds ru m past ru tj clear b miss s miss you Uy faze z faze you by get t get your c y did d did Eunice Dy c sen d sen d Anne senjd two fin d fin d it finjjd them hol d hol d on hol d tight The first two examples illustrate processes involving assimilation of place of articulation. In 2a a word-final alveolar nasal assimilates to the place specification of the consonant at the beginning
