LIN 1300 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Vocal Tract, Grapheme, Phonotactics

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Linguistics
• Course: LIN 1300
• Professor: Laura Kastronic

Document Summary

Phonetics is the study of speech sounds as physical entities: how they are produced in the vocal tract, what their articulatory and acoustic properties are, and how they are interpreted. Phonology is the study of how sounds are organized within a language and how they interact with one another. Hich sounds affect the identity of words? (cid:315)(cid:315)(cid:315)(cid:315)(cid:315)(cid:315)(cid:315)(cid:315)(cid:315) Phonology : uncovers the abstract sound system that governs the mind of a speaker. Phonetics : deals with the physical properties of the sounds. This happens because you know the phonotactics of english, that is, the restrictions on possible combinations of sounds in language. Differences in phonetic inventories (e. i. sounds that are produced as part of the language) Sequences of sounds (e. i. which sounds can go together and where they are permitted) Natural class is a group of sounds in a language that share 1+ articulatory (or auditory) properties to the exclusion of all other sounds in that language.