LING 290 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Voiceless Labiodental Fricative, Voiced Labiodental Fricative, Voiced Dental Fricative
2 Feb 2016
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Described in terms of voicing, place and manner of articulation. Described in terms of vocal tract shape: tongue height, frontness, lip-round. Labial (bilabial): both lips m, b, p . Oral stops (plosives) p, b, t, d, k, g . Narrow passage air becomes turbulent friction f, v, th, dh, s, z, sh, . Affricate stop and fricative ch, zh . Retroflex: curling of the tongue and rounding of the mouth r . Voiced p b t d k g f v t h. H : glottis is wide open and no vibration; so it is voiceless. Tongue backness front [i], central, back [u] Tongue height high (close) [i], mid, low (open) [a] Lax low front (cat, cash, apple) Lax high back (book, boot) Lax mid back (borrow, toy, boy) One symbol, one sound; one sound, one symbol. One letter, different sounds all, abroad, apple, age, father . One sound, different letters sea, see, scene, receive, thief .
