PSY 3136 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Articulatory Phonetics, Tenuis Consonant, Phonetics

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 3136
• Professor: Chris Fennell

Document Summary

Lecture 6 (chapter 4) - phonetic and phonological development. Different sounds don"t always indicate different meanings. Phoneme: smallest structural sound unit that can change meaning. Allophone : phones that do not differentiate meaning. P and ph in english (but not in thai) The letters of the alphabet are not adequate for describing speech sounds. (remember, the letter s can be pronounced [z] or [s]. ) What we need is an alphabet in which each symbol can be pronounced only one way and every sound has its own symbol. The phonetic alphabet is just such a system. When a word is spelled in the phonetic alphabet, people who know that alphabet can figure out how the word is pronounced, even if they do not know the language. Therefore, the english word pill is represented as [phil] and spill is [spil] Often in describing how words sound, it is sufficient to indicate just the sounds that are phonemes.