The prague phological school

According to the Generative approach, the basic elements are some phonetic distinctive features, which are used to give the utterance its phonological representation, which in its turn has no connection most of the time with actual pronunciation. Its goal is to enable a root or an affix of the language to be represented in all its occurrences by the same sequence of phonological elements, irrespective of phonetic differences, depending on context. The link between the two representations – phonological and phonetic – is established by a set of “rules” which operate in a fixed order, adding, deleting, or modifying distinctive features.

• According to the Generative approach, the basic elements are some phonetic distinctive features, which are used to give the utterance its phonological representation, which in its turn has no connection most of the time with actual pronunciation. Its goal is to enable a root or an affix of the language to be represented in all its occurrences by the same sequence of phonological elements, irrespective of phonetic differences, depending on context. The link between the two representations – phonological and phonetic – is established by a set of “rules” which operate in a fixed order, adding, deleting, or modifying distinctive features.
• One syllabic words: life, love
• Two syllabic words: cooler, cliff
• Three or more syllabic words: alternate, physical
• Compound words: mentalistic, psychological

2.2. Phonological analysis of words (the same words given in 2.1.)

• One syllabic words
• Life [laif]
• 1. There are 4 letters in this word.
• 2. There are 3 sounds in this word.
• 3. There is a syllable in it.
• 4. There are 2 vowel sound (i- hard vowel).
• According to the horizontal movement of the tongue: i- front
• According to the vertical movement of the tongue: i-mid-narrow
• According to the position of the lips: i- unrounded
• According to the quantitative features: i- short vowel, monophthong.
• 5. There are 2 consonant letters: l- bilabial, plosive f- alveolar, plosive
• 6. This is one syllabic word and there is no reduction in it.