LING-101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Alveolar Clicks, George W. Bush, Dental Clicks
6 Apr 2016
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Phonetics the _____________ and __________ of sounds of language. Speech sounds are called phones limited number cross-linguistically. All human phones can be learned by anyone. Sound created by air flowing out of mouth/nose. Sound created by air flowing into mouth. When released, air flows inward bilabial click dental click lateral click postalveolar click. Can have outward air flow at same time. Ingressives typically produced with simultaneous nasal egressives. Suprasegmental features (above level of segment, applies to all) Higher the frequency, higher the pitch: natural pitch. Men often have lower pitched voices because (which creates slower vibration): longer. ________nasal/oral cavities thicker bigger: controlled pitch higher pitch created by. Vocal cords are made _________ more tense. And ____________ is forced through them faster air (more energy!) fixed. Controlling the pitch of language has 2 functions: tone. Pitch attached to specific _______________ contour lexical items/words. Different tones on same word = different word. H ma (cid:858)(cid:373)othe(cid:396)(cid:859) ma (cid:858)he(cid:373)p(cid:859) (cid:858)ho(cid:396)se(cid:859) ma (cid:858)s(cid:272)old(cid:859)
