turkish phonology and morphology (türkçe ses ve b‹ç‹mb‹lg‹s‹)
turkish phonology and morphology (türkçe ses ve b‹ç‹mb‹lg‹s‹)
turkish phonology and morphology (türkçe ses ve b‹ç‹mb‹lg‹s‹)
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It is your turn!<br />
It is your turn!<br />
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It is your turn!<br />
It is your turn!<br />
Unit 3 - Turkish 2 Vowels 2 41<br />
2000) whereas the second /a/ is more like the English tense mid It is your central turn! vowel [√].<br />
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Thus, the allophones of /a/are as follows.<br />
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[a] speaker-dependent (e.g., para, kan› ‘<strong>ve</strong>ry slow <strong>ve</strong>hicle’)<br />
It is your turn!<br />
It is your turn!<br />
/a/ [´] in first syllable (e.g., masa, hal›)<br />
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[√] elsewhere (e.g., masa, s›ra)<br />
The first allophone [a] is used much less commonly as Turkish It is your has turn! the tendency<br />
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to centralize all the vowels. Vowels, rather than being realized at extreme 5 points<br />
in the vowel space, are approximated more towards the center. The reason may<br />
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be that there are no distinct phonemes in the central part It in is your Turkish. turn! Thus, a<br />
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change in the vowel quality would not cause a change in the meaning of 6 words.<br />
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Transcribe the following words considering the allophonic variations It is when your turn! necessary.<br />
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hayat<br />
leblebi<br />
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örümcek<br />
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istiklal<br />
mürekkep<br />
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