ENG 1100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Grapheme, Phonetics, Phonetic Transcription
9 Dec 2016
School
Department
Course
Professor
Document Summary
Articulatory phonetics : interested in how sounds are produced by the vocal tract. Acoustic phonetics : interested in the physical properties of sounds. Perpetual (auditory) phonetics : interested in how sounds are perceived by the auditory system. Impressionistic phonetic transcription: a method of writing down speech sounds in order to capture what is said and how it is pronounced. Each symbol represents 1 sound (phone), and only one symbol for each sound. If 2 sounds can distinguish one word from another, they should be represented by different symbols. If 2 sounds are very similar and their differences arise only from context they are in, we should be able to represent that similarity. Same sound can be spelled using different letters (th ei r, th ey "re, th e re) Sometimes the same letters can represent different sounds (l oo t, f oo t)
