LINGUIST 1Z03 Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: Joule, Dental And Alveolar Flaps, Vocal Folds
9 Dec 2017
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Phonemes - s(cid:373)allest u(cid:374)its of a speaker"s (cid:373)e(cid:374)tal represe(cid:374)tatio(cid:374) Continuants - articulated with a free flow of airstream through the oral cavity. Three phonemes p, t, k, are aspirated sometimes. Phonological features are binary ,meaning they are either one or the other. Articulatory features include places and manners of articulation. Phonetic features have to be contrastive of distinctive - they must be able to differentiate between individual phonemes and individual phoneme classes. Pho(cid:374)e(cid:373)es are represe(cid:374)ted i(cid:374) a speaker"s (cid:271)rai(cid:374) si(cid:373)ilarly. Feature matrixes can illustrate the properties of phonemes. Major-class features - distinguish between major classes of speech sounds. E. g vowels and consonants, sonorants and obstruents, syllabic. Glides are not articulated with constriction in the vocal tract. Syllabic - describes phonemes that can function as the nucleus of a syllable, usually vowels. Strident - obstruents whose articulation involves friction as in the case of the phonemes /s/ and sh.
