LINGUIST 1Z03 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Sibilant, Soft Palate, Coronal Consonant
9 Dec 2017
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Articulatory phonetics - analyzing physiological mechanisms of speech production. Acoustic phonetics - measuring and analyzing physical properties of sound waves produced. Lar(cid:455)(cid:374)(cid:454)/voi(cid:272)e (cid:271)o(cid:454)/ada(cid:373) s apple - box like structure made of cartilage and muscle. All phones have inherent suprasegmental or prosodic properties. Pitch (low, high), accomplished by controlling tension of vocal folds and amount of air that passes through the glottis. Tensed vocal folds and greater air pressure results in higher pitch on vowels and consonants. Tone language - differences in word meaning are signalled by differences in pitch. Register tones - level tones that signal meaning differences. T(cid:449)o or three register to(cid:374)es are (cid:374)or(cid:373)al i(cid:374) (cid:373)ost of the (cid:449)orld(cid:859)s register to(cid:374)e la(cid:374)guages. Contour tones - moving pitches that signal meaning differences. Intonation - pitch movement in spoken utterances not related to differences in word meaning. Terminal intonation contour - falling pitch at the end of a sentence. Heard in non final forms in lists and telephone numbers.
