LING 1001 Lecture 6: Suprasegmentals: Phonetics of Signed Languages - Sep 22, 2015
23 Sep 2015
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Ling 1001 suprasegmentals: phonetics of signed languages. Guest talk: krishna madaparthi: phonetics of signed languages. Speech involves more than just sequences of segments. Other properties of speech signal: duration, stress, tone, intonation. These properties apply above the segments: supra segmental. Some languages have both long & short vowels. Long vowels marked w/ diacritic: ex. Other languages have both short & long consonants (aka singletons & geminates) Long consonants also marked with: ex. In many languages, 1 syllable is stressed compared to the others. Stress = relative: 1 syllable: primary stress, 1 or more syllables: secondary stress, other syllables: unstressed. We will only mark primary stress (using ") We don"t mark stress in 1 syllable words. Chime [ ajm]
