Open AccessTypes and Aspects of Neutralization
Author(s) -
Mutar Sabeeh Naser
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
maǧallaẗ kulliyyaẗ al-tarbiyaẗ
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2518-5586
pISSN - 1994-4217
DOI - 10.31185/eduj.vol2.iss2.898
Subject(s) - neutralization , representation (politics) , context (archaeology) , linguistics , phonology , phonological rule , cognitive psychology , psychology , history , medicine , political science , law , politics , philosophy , archaeology , immunology , antibody
The current research deals with neutralization as a phenomenon to determine the function of phonetic and phonological representation while perceiving and producing speech. This is achieved through reviewing the types and aspects of neutralization. Neutralization refers to phonological rules that devastate the difference among two phonemes in specific conditions; thus, two distinct phonemes might be acknowledged phonetically by a similar phone. The study concludes that neutralization represents one of the main phonological processes in which the difference between two phonemes is vanished in a particular setting. Thus, neutralization exists when a phonemic distinction disappears in a particular phonological context.