LINGUIST 1A03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: International Phonetic Alphabet, Articulatory Phonetics, Vocal Folds

• School: McMaster University
• Department: Linguistics
• Course: LINGUIST 1A03
• Professor: Catherine Anderson

Document Summary

One problem is that english has only 5 letter characters that represent vowels but more than a dozen different vowel sounds. Not only can a single sound be represented by many different spellings, but even in the spelling is not consistent in sound it represents. English spelling system was standardized hundreds of years ago (pronunciation changed much si(cid:374)(cid:272)e the(cid:374) (cid:271)ut spelli(cid:374)g has(cid:374)"t(cid:895) Regional variation; english is spoken all over the world. O(cid:272)ial a(cid:374)d (cid:272)o(cid:374)te(cid:454)tual (cid:448)ariatio(cid:374) (cid:894)the (cid:449)a(cid:455) (cid:455)ou speak differs (cid:449)he(cid:374) (cid:455)ou"re (cid:449)ith (cid:272)ertai(cid:374) people ex. Speaking and listening are primary; reading and writing are secondary. One to one mapping between sound and symbol (each symbol represents only one sound and each sound means only one symbol) Phonetic transcription: written record of sounds of spoken language. Square brackets indicate that were not using ordinary spelling (ipa) Acoustic phonetics: physical and acoustic properties of sound waves. Articulatory phonetics: how humans use bodies to produce speech sound.