LING 1P92 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Front Vowel, Formant, Voice-Onset Time
12 Jan 2016
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Not speech sounds in any language (hiccups, sneezes, grunts) Speech sounds in english but not other languages (thunder, this, they) English spelling doesn"t always relate to the sounds of english in a one to one fashion cabbage) Therefore linguists use a phonetic alphabet which does represent sounds in a one to one fashion. What is sound? (air molecules set in motion, ex. The larynx (voice box): composed of muscle and cartilage at the upper end of windpipe. The vocal folds (cords): 2 muscular bands passing through the larynx. The vocal folds produce a voicing distinction among sounds (ffffff vs. vvvvvvvvv) Vowels), the vibration of the glottis creates a periodic sound wave (the basic or fundamental frequency is what listeners perceive as pitch) Oral cavity (mouth): resonating chamber modified by speech articulations (especially tongue) Nasal cavity (resonating chamber above the hard and soft palette; velum lowers to. A single letter can represent more than 1 sound (ape, any, alligator)
