LIN 2300 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Vocal Tract, Palatine Uvula, Fricative Consonant

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Linguistics
• Course: LIN 2300
• Professor: Gustavo Freire

Document Summary

Acoustic; measuring and analyzing the physical properties of the sound waves we produce when we speak. Auditory; how the human ear perceives sounds and how the human brain recognizes and interprets them as distinctive units. Ex; s vs. z sound (feeling of vocal chords in the throat are tactical: place of articulation. Development of muscles to speak specific languages (arabic sounds come from the throat, whereas english comes from the front of the mouth) Examples of different articulations: this & thy vs. thing & thigh (interdental sounds, something made with the tongue near or touching uvula in. Not necessarily an understanding of words, but an ability to use the core muscles of the language: manner of articulation. Consonants can involve a complete obstruction of airflow in /p/ or /k/ all the way down a very minimal obstruction as in /w/ or /j/ People often perceive two different sounds as the same, depending on their native language.