Download Phonetics - The Study of Language | LING 2100 and more Study notes Linguistics in PDF only on Docsity! Phonetics • Articulatory – the way speech sounds are produced • Auditory – the way speech sounds are perceived • Acoustic – study of the physical properties of speech sounds Speech Sounds Needs List Lungs Vocal folds Vocal tract Air molecules Source of the Sound Wave Pushing air out Source of the Energy Filter LF p. 46 Contribution of the Vocal Folds Contribution of the Vocal Tract (Articulators) LF p. 73 Acoustic Phonetics • Waveform • Principal manners of articulation • Difference btw voiced and voiceless sounds Peter Ladefoged. A Course in Phonetics. (2006) . Type of Speech Sounds • Segments • Vowels (V) • Consonants (C) • Suprasegmentals • Length • Tone • Intonation • Stress Pronouncing Speech Sounds • Positioning vocal tract and larynx in a particular configuration • Presence or absence of (relative) constriction and where and how this constriction occurs in the vocal tract • Presence or absence of vibration in the larynx Acoustic Phonetics
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English Orthography ri-gh-t, w-rit-e, rit-e, w-ri-gh-t rain, rein, reign Partially alphabetic: /r – i – t/ Partially logographic alphabetic alphabetic alphabetic logographic English Orthography • sea, see, scene, receive, thief • <s>: sign, pleasure, measure, resign • <ch>: charter, character, chef • <a>: father, all, about, apple, any, age • lock, that, book, boast, shop • exit, use • know, though, island ...some more of the inconsistancy • <ough> tough, cough, though, through • /i/ meet, meat, siege, conceive, city, spaghetti Manner of Articulation • Stop • Fricative • Affricate • Nasal • Lateral (liquid) • Retroflex (liquid) • Glide • Flap Place of Articulation • Bilabial (“both-lippy”) • Labiodental (“lowerlippo-upperteethy”) • Interdental (“in-between-teethy”) • Alveolar (“tooth-sockety”) • Alveopalatal (“tooth-socketo-mouth-roofy”) • Palatal (“mouth-roofy”) • Velar (“veily”) • Glottal (“windpipe-gappy”)
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