LING 330 Lecture Notes - Lecture 27: Formant, Sonorant, Standing Wave
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Most languages only care whether sounds are pulmonic or non-pulmonic. Apical sounds: done with the blade of the tongue (slightly behind the tip) Voiced glottal stops: to have voicing, your vocal folds have to vibrate but if it is a stop, you cannot have air passing through. Pharyngeal nasal: there is no air going to your velum, so you cannot nasalize. Bilabial lateral fricative: the lips are what are doing the work your tongue is not even involved, and a lateral sounds require that air pass along the sides of the tongue. /s/ and / / have very high-frequency noise more turbulence and a lot more noise because of the obstruction. E. g. , /f/ the main part where you can get a lot of frication is the teeth, but not a lot of frication occurs the air just goes straight out of the mouth. A sonorant is something that is not an obstruction, as opposed to a sibilant.
