LING 1001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Postalveolar Consonant, Phonetics, Vocal Folds

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

Document Summary

Describing speech sounds (ipa, symbol for each speech sounds), how differ. 3 characteristics (voice, place of articulation, manner of articulation) Air pass through larynx, control over it. Glottis in between vocal folds (don"t worry about of parts) Voiceless, pulled apart (/s/), voiced, pulled close together (/z/) vibration 2 common in all languages. Whisper, pulled tight except bottom (flexible part pulled tight) Consonants voiced or voiceless (list in slides) What changes for all: where in vocal tract airflow is restricted. Bilabial (both lips involved), /p/, /b/, /m/, /w/--where airflow restricted, even if not all the way. Labiodental (lower lip approaches upper teeth), /f/, /v/ Interdental (tongue comes between teeth), both th sounds (diff between two is voicing) Alveolar (tongue tip approaches or touches alveolar ridge), /t/, /d/, /n/, Postalveolar (tongue approaches just behind alveolar ridge /shhhh/, etc. Palatal (middle of top of mouth), /j/ (yes) Velar (back of tongue approaches/ touches soft palate (velum)), /k/, /h/ /n that hangs down/ (sing)