LING 200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Articulatory Phonetics, Phonetic Transcription, Voiced Labiodental Fricative

• School: McGill University
• Department: Linguistics
• Course: LING 200
• Professor: Alan Clinton Bale

Document Summary

Phonetics: the study of the sounds of human speech. Concerned with the physical properties of speech sounds or signs (phones) Phonology: the study of the abstract, grammatical characterization of systems of sounds. The abstract principles that govern the form and distribution of sounds in a language. Branches of phonetics: articulatory phonetics: analyzes the physiological mechanisms of speech productions, acoustic phonetics: concerned with measuring and analyzing the physical properties of the sound waves we produce. Phonetic transcription: use international phonetic alphabet (ipa) to represent speech sounds. Example: welcome mat melcome wat: segments of the same type remain invariant across languages. Larynx (voice box: air passes up the trachea from the lungs and through the larynx, the larynx houses the vocal folds and the space between them, the glottis. Glide: a speech sound that shows properties of both vowels and consonants: produced with the articulation of a vowel but move more quickly, proceed or follow a vowel.