ACCTG 1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 27: Noam Chomsky, Polysemy, Pragmatics
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Synchronic linguistics views a particular state of a language at some given point in time. = the branch of linguistics that studies speech sounds. It is concerned with the production, transportation and comprehension of speech sounds. Three branches: articulatory phonetics how and where are sounds produced, acoustic phonetics examines the length, frequency, pitch of sounds, auditory phonetics studies what happens inside the brain and the ears when sounds are received. Are classified into 1) voicing, 2) manner of articulation and 3) place of articulation: voicing. In the case of voice sounds the vocal cords vibrate (larynx) Ws 2016 e. g. z s, v f, d t: manner of articulation, stops (also called plosives) The air stream is stopped completely and let go abruptly (e. g. p, t, k: fricatives. The air stream is almost blocked and escapes through a narrow opening (e. g. f, s: nasals. The air sstream escapes through the nose (e. g. m, n: approximants.
