EL 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Articulatory Phonetics, Acoustic Phonetics, Auditory Phonetics

• School: Abra State Institute of Science and Technology
• Department: Education
• Course: EL 100

Document Summary

The two primary linguistic disciplines concerned with speech sounds - those sounds that are used by humans to communicate - are phonetics and phonology. Phonetics describes the concrete, physical form of sounds (how they are produced, heard and how they can be described), while phonology is concerned with the function of sounds, that is with their status and inventory in any given language. The two basic tasks of phonetics are the transcription and the classification of sounds, also called phones in this context. The phone is therefore the basic unit of phonetics and it refers to the concrete sound substance as such. In the area of articulatory phonetics this substance is described on the basis of the articulatory properties. These refer to the human vocal tract (or to the speech organs), or it is the study of the physiological mechanisms of speech production.