Linguistics 105 "Linguistic Analysis -- Sounds and Words"
A Catalog of Linguistic Symbols
Symbols Function Examples
¡'is replaced by' x ¡ y 'x is replaced by y' (synchronically)
>'was replaced by' x ¡ y / z__ 'x became y after z' (historically)
/ 'in the context:' x ¡ y / z__ 'x is replaced by y after z'
___ context distribution x ¡ y / __z 'x is replaced by y before z'
/x/ phoneme boundaries /d/ ¡ [t] / [-Voiced] ___ '/d/ is replaced by [t] after voiceless consonants'
[x] (allo)phone boundaries [a] = the (allo)phone 'a'
¤ null (nothing) ¤ ¡ /-øü/ 'insert the suffix -ing'
   /n/ ¡ ¤ / ___ [+Liquid] 'delete /n/ before /r/ or /l/
# word boundary[+Voiced] ¡ [-Voiced] / ___# 'Voiced consonants are replaced by voiceless ones at the end of words'
- morpheme boundarypre- 'the prefix /pri/'; -ing 'the suffix /-øü/'
CAPS Variables V = 'any vowel'
C = 'any consonant'
S = 'any syllable'
[+X] Morphological or
Phonological feature 		[+Agent] 'Agent noun', e.g. cook, baker, typist
[+Front] 'front vowel', i.e. /i ø À e ê/
*ungrammatical (synchronic)
unattested (historical)		*edbake = 'edbake is ungrammatical'
*bßer- = 'bßer- is unattested in writings'
?questionable ?unstoppable by hand 'unstoppable by hand'
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