There is a difference between easier and harder need to be careful when using such Different writing system hard Roman alphabet EASIER since everyone knows it loose use of the terms this is not always true Studies on vocabulary acquisition show that the easier the words the more you would learn but the harder the words the less vocabulary a student will learn Nadelyn Pichardo LING 100 800 Perkins terms Class Vowel Chart Woman w m n w mIn w m n Women wIm n Phonology constraints Violations of phonotactic constraints rare since languages put things into their own English borrowed the word Tsunami and while we do NOT pronounce the T the other language does When someone doesn t have the same accent that we do they are seen as non native speakers or like they have an accent everyone has their own accent depending of where they are from Cross Linguistics phonology typology comparison of features in various languages Sound distribution in World s Languages 2 of world s languages less common r most common r ish sound more common When a language has a less common sound it means that such language is likely to have a common counterpart or a sound that is use instead kh k Language change happens when a language looses a less common sound Phonological Analysis 1 What is different What is the same What is the pattern 2 Why is it different 3 What are the phonemes and the allophones minimal pairs are phoneme complementary distribution allophone 4 Where the allophones show up When 5 Make the phonological rule x u end of word o end of word a u a end of word I t I end of word t E i t d E I n Vowels Backness roundness and height x after a non front vowel elsewhere after front vowels t train tricky treat try trust t t before an t sticky star t t elsewhere