ANT102H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Articulatory Phonetics, Acoustic Phonetics, Wildebeest
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What is phonology: phonetics study of speech sounds. Spectrogram shows what speech looks like graphical registering of human speech. Language of physiology what parts of the body come together to produce what sou(cid:374)d (cid:894)lips joi(cid:374)i(cid:374)g to (cid:272)reate (cid:858)(cid:373)(cid:859) sou(cid:374)d(cid:895: phonemics refers to sounds that we hear, sound perception. Phone is sound and phoneme is a significant sound. Varied cross culturally in terms of what sounds are grouped together and recognized. Part of early steps of learning new language. Example: tip, pit and spit p sounds in the three words in spectrogram are not seen as the same. I(cid:374) e(cid:374)glish, we do(cid:374)(cid:859)t disti(cid:374)guish (cid:271)etween these 3 sounds see them as the same. K and t are allophones native speakers see them as the same but in english they are quite distinct. Allophones groups together different sounds to sound similar. Learning to recognize sounds is a cultural process.
