diff --git a/01_phonetics/assignment01.md b/01_phonetics/assignment01.md index 3f02331..e02fcd5 100644 --- a/01_phonetics/assignment01.md +++ b/01_phonetics/assignment01.md @@ -1,7 +1,7 @@ --- title: "Linguistics for Cognitive Science: Assignment 1" author: - - Felicia Saar + - Felicia Saar (3818590) - David-Elias Künstle (3822829) date: \today @@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ **If a language has fewer consonants, will the consonants that it does have be simpler and easier to articulate?** With their *size principle* @Lindblom-and-Maddieson-1988 suggest a positive correlation between the a language's consonant inventory size and consonant simplicity. -A consonant is simpler if he is easier to pronounce and to distinguish from other. +A consonant is simpler if it is easier to pronounce and to distinguish from other. The intuitive explanation for the size principle is kind of a consonant darwinism: If a consonant is hard to pronounce speaker will simplify or even omit them. If a consonant is hard to distinguish of another, they will probably melt together over time. Beside this intuitive explanation we can find a lot of examples in the world's language which support the size principle, small inventories with just simple consonants or complex consonants only in large inventories.