LING 1F94 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Vocal Folds, Smog, Murmured Voice
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Change meaning without adding anything to it. Example to summer in paris changes summer from noun to verb without adding anything. Example smoke and fog creates the word smog. Example the verb edit came from word editor. Words that sound like what they mean example woof woof for a dog"s bark. One sound can be represented by many letter and one letter can represent many sounds . Some letters have no sound in certain words, such as b in climb. Speech starts in lungs, moves up windpipe, past vocal folds, When vocal chords vibrate it is voiced sound. Glottal states refers to whether your vocal folds are pulled apart or not. Murmur is a breathy voice using voiced aspirated consonants. Consonants have restriction but vowels have no obstruction of air flow.