LING 1001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Phenome, Diphthong, Phonetic Transcription

• School: Carleton University
• Department: Linguistics
• Course: LING 1001
• Professor: Bethany Mac Leod

Document Summary

Study of production and perception of speech sounds. Articulatory (biggest focus of class), acoustic, auditory. Articulatory: what"s going on in vocal tract (what"s body parts doing; tongue, lips) Acoustic: properties once leaves mouth (record, measure properties of speech sound itself), waveform, spectrograph. Auditory: hearing mechanism, perceive speech using physical mechanism of ear. As speak, draw air up from the lungs (usually in languages) and out the vocal tract to produce speech sounds. Do stuff with mouth to change sounds. Changing from 1 sound to anoth: moveing tongue, lips, changing something in throat. Parts called articulators: adjust to produce sounds. No 1 to 1 correspondence between letters or characters and sounds. Sounds can be represented by more than 1 letter or combination (sounds the same but spelled diff) Single letter rep more than 1 sound cite. We need one symbol per speech sound. Put together to rep pronunciation on words.