LING 530 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Extended Periodic Table, Prosodic Unit, Formant

• School: McGill University
• Department: Linguistics
• Course: LING 530
• Professor: Francisco Martinez

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Office hours: wednesdays & thursdays 2-6 pm. No office hours on march 29 (my birthday j) But let me know at least a day in advance by email. Segmental sequences can have a particular tone/pitch which creates a difference in meaning. This is not segmental, but plays a role in lexical contrast. In english, the duration of vowels contributes to the distinction between both vowels (bid vs. bit) However, all of these features" can play a role in segmental contrasts . Suprasegmental means that we are looking at how different segments contrast with one another. F0 is the fundamental frequency: the lowest frequency that all the other harmonics are based on. Successive periodic cycles in waveforms of voiced speech tend to look like each other. Only voiced speech because unvoiced speech does not have melody/musicality. You can sing while producing /z/ but not while producing /s/ Notice the repeating pattern of similar-looking waveform chunks.