LINGUIST 1A03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Vowel Reduction, Chipotle, Epenthesis

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

Document Summary

When speaking the articulators are always moving. Moving from the position of the sound they just made to the position and preparing for the sound that"s coming up. You can feel this really easily by saying [k ij] key and [k uwl]-cool. Both key and cool start off with a voiceless velar stop [k] The vowels in each word are different. The [e] in key is high in front and the. [o] in cool is high back and rounded. When we produce the [k] sound our mouth is already preparing for the next vowel. The articulation of every of every speech sound is shaped by the sounds that come before and after it. We can include details about coarticulation, and other articulatory processes. Involves sound becoming more similar to each other. Sounds often become similar to each other to what"s coming up in a word. The words [k t] - cat and [k n]-can.