LING 1001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Phonetics, Natural Language
11 Apr 2016
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But speech more than just stringing segments together. Properties that apply above the segments: supra segements. Stress: words only differ in position of stress causing them to mean different things. Tone: words that have different tones and that causes them to mean two different things. Some languages have both long and short vowels. Other languages have both long and short consonants (singletons and geminates) In many languages one syllable emphasized more, stresses compared to other is sentence. Stress is relative (can"t tell with one syllable, compare with other syllables) One or more: secondary stress (not worry about in this class. First thing in transcription is stress marker if first syllable is stressed. In some languages a difference in the position of stress can cause 2 words to mean 2 different things. English: unstressed vowels ten to be reduced in english: often shwa, or at least lax. Differences in tone reflected in changes in pitch.
